| 单词 | rhumb sailing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhumb sailing rhumb sailing n. now rare sailing on a rhumb-line. ΚΠ 1851 A. G. Findlay Directory Navigation Pacific Ocean ii. 1281 The disadvantage it [sc. great circle sailing] has over rhumb sailing is fivefold in the Atlantic, and twelve times as great in the Pacific. 1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. at Sailings Under this head are classed rhumb, great circle, plane and spherical sailings. 1912 D. H. Hayne Man. Rule of Road at Sea (ed. 2) 90 The deep sea navigator has two tracks from which to choose: Rhumb sailing or Great Circle sailing. < as lemmas |
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