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nautical

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Borrowed from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus (of or relating to sailors), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

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nautical (not generally comparable, comparative more nautical, superlative most nautical)

  1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
    nautical charts
    I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.
    • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:
      The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]

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