| 单词 | to shoot the sun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shoot (also take) the sun (a) Originally and chiefly Nautical. to shoot (also take) the sun: to ascertain the altitude of the sun using a sextant or other navigational instrument in order to determine one's latitude. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > take a sight or observation observe1559 to shoot (also take) the sun?1574 the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > observe [verb (intransitive)] > take altitude > shoot the sun to shoot (also take) the sun?1574 ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea f. 28 I take the Sun vpon the Southest poynt .20. degrees aboue the horison. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 100 They tooke ye sunne & after iudged themselues to be 24. leagues past the riuer de Sestos. 1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. 195 I took the Sun, and hereby I found variation 26 D. 30. unto the North East. 1740 Descr. Barston's Astron. Quadrant i. 12 We have shewn how to find the Latitude of the Place, by taking the Sun or Star upon the Meridian. 1861 North-China Herald 16 Nov. 183/4 After an ineffectual attempt to shoot the sun at noon..we went to a large collection of houses near by. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad iii. 36 I..found a sextant... Now, I said, they ‘take the sun’ through this thing. 1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 61 106 I had taken the sun for the last time and said we would not see it again for ninety days. 1929 Bull. Amer. Assoc. University Professors 15 529 He can talk to you almost with eloquence about..how to shoot the sun with a sextant. 2002 M. J. Putney Bartered Bride (2004) xiv. 142 Eleven thirty in the morning, time to get his sextant and shoot the sun to check their position. < as lemmas |
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