cross-bearings

The latitude and longitude are mine, and the bearings from the oak ribs on the shoal to Lion's Head, and the cross-bearings from the points unnamable, I only know.

CHAPTER IX 2010

And I saw it go under the sand, a fathom under the sand, on cross-bearings unnamable, where the mangroves fade away, and the coconuts grow, and the rise of land lifts from the beach to the

CHAPTER IX 2010

Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

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He sketched the shoreline in meticulous detail and checked his accuracy by using his compasses to make careful cross-bearings.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

He sketched the shoreline in meticulous detail and checked his accuracy by using his compasses to make careful cross-bearings.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Just as the cartographer was required to use a different, more general vocabulary to plot the geography of the local village, so too should the philosopher use a more general vocabulary than the specialist's to plot the “cross-bearings” between the concepts of different theories.

Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

"With two cross-bearings and an accurately measured base line, we can pin them down to a hundred yards."

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

Since 1862 the power of defending seaports has been added to by the application of submarine mines, arranged to be fired by impact alone, or to be fired on impact when (under electrical control) the firing arrangement is set for the purpose, or to be fired electrically from the shore by two persons stationed on cross-bearings, both of whom must concur in the act of explosion.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

Where there are efficient maps the only need is to mark in the position of any antiquities, by cross-bearings to clear points, with the compass, drawn in with a sharp pencil.

How to Observe in Archaeology Various

For example, there are two different classes of radio compass stations, -- those that operate independently and are located with a view to giving good cross-bearings to vessels that are from fifty to a hundred miles out to sea; and those known as harbor stations which are governed by a central control station and designed to inform ships within thirty miles of the entrance to outer channels of their position.

Walter and the Wireless Sara Ware Bassett 1920