| 单词 | traverse book |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraverse book traverse book n. (a) Nautical a logbook used to record a ship's course and speed for use in dead reckoning (now historical); cf. sense 16; (b) Surveying a book used for recording measurements and other information collected in the course of carrying out a traverse survey (sense 20). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook traverse book1600 sea-booka1642 journal1671 logbooka1679 rough logbook1779 log1825 sea-log1853 1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 115 (heading) A traverse-booke made by M. Iohn Davis in his third voyage for the discouerie of the Northwest passage. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Log They are enter'd into the Log-Book, or Traverse-Book, ruled and column'd just as the Log-Board is. 1888 F. H. Cushing Let. 6 Mar. in Jrnl Southwest (1995) 37 657 Wherever it may seem desirable, it might be well to illustrate more in detail these points by plans in the traverse-book herewith furnished, and by sketches, no matter how hasty, in the sketch-book also provided herewith. 1961 E. S. Dodge Northwest by Sea viii. 101 Davis, on his third voyage, also kept a traverse book which was an improvement on earlier systems and set the form for entering the necessary information concisely in log books thereafter. 1993 I. M. Spry & B. McCardle Rec. Dept. of Interior & Res. Canada's Western Frontier 58 The records listed here consist of files..letter books, maps, technical records of individual surveys (including field books, diaries, traverse books, and related items). < as lemmas |
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