Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Published details respecting particular seas and coasts, useful for the purpose of navigation. Compare
pilot , 4.
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Examples
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By the aid of maps and sailing-directions they may either escape them altogether, or boldly take advantage of their outward sweep, and shorten their passages.
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Beetle sat down relieved, well knowing that a reef of uncharted genitives stretched ahead of him, on which in spite of M'Turk's sailing-directions he would infallibly have been wrecked.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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THO there be such absolute sailing-directions in the shape of pre - human standards of truth that we OUGHT to follow, the only guarantee that we shall in fact follow them must lie in our human equipment.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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