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hydrographer|haɪˈdrɒgrəfə(r)|
[This and the following words are 16th c. formations on Gr. ὕδωρ, ὑδρο- water, on the pattern of the corresponding geographer, -graphic, -graphical, -graphy, which came down through L. from actual Gr. formations. The immediate precursors of the English words were the Fr. hydrographe (1548), hydrographique, -graphie (1551).]
One skilled or practised in hydrography; spec. one whose business it is to make hydrographic surveys and to construct charts of the sea, its currents, etc., as the Hydrographer to the Admiralty.
The first Hydrographer to the Navy was appointed in 1795.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Table T ij, Shipmans compasse unknowne to the olde Hydrographers. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 18 What way, the Tides and Ebbes, come and go, the Hydrographer ought to recorde. c1675J. Seller Coasting Pilot title-p., Collected and Published by John Seller, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 288 The South Sea must be of a greater breadth..than it's commonly reckoned by Hydrographers. 1795Admiralty Ord. in Council 12 Aug. I. 124 We would humbly propose to Your Majesty that a proper person should be fixed upon to be appointed Hydrographer to this Board. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. ii. 9 Captain Beaufort, the Admiralty hydrographer. 1880W. B. Carpenter in 19th Cent. 609 All the best hydrographers..agree..that the Florida current dies out in the mid-Atlantic. |