| 单词 | lubber's point |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslubber's point lubber's point n. Nautical a vertical line inside a compass-case, indicating the direction of the ship's head. ΚΠ 1840 H. Raper Pract. Navigation §142. 42 Care is taken to place the box so that lubber's point in the bowl, and the centre of the card, are in a line fore and aft, or parallel to the keel. But as lubber's point deviates a little from its proper position when the ship is heeled over, seamen do not implicitly depend upon it, as indeed the name implies. 1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. iv. 156 I..set the two compasses down with the lubber's points exactly parallel. < as lemmas |
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