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单词 to lay one's course
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to lay one's (or a) course
b. Nautical. to lay one's (or a) course: see quots. 1867, 1881.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > make desired course
to lie the course1574
to lay one's (or a) course1669
OE Genesis 2402 Lastas legdon..oðþæt hie on Sodoman, weallsteape burg, wlitan meahton.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 18 The Wind will be Northerly, make ready to go about; we shall lay our Course another way.
1793 Rennell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 190 We were driven to the north of Scilly; and were barely able to lay a course through the passage between those islands and the Land's End.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To lay her course, to be able to sail in the direction wished for, however barely the wind permits it.
1881 L. R. Hamersly Naval Encycl. (at cited word) A ship lays her course when being close-hauled, the wind permits the desired course to be steered.
1890 W. F. Rae Maygrove III. ix. 307 The steamer's course was laid for Michipicoten.
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