most nautical
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"Ship ahoy!" she cried, trying to imitate Captain Jenk's most nautical term.
From Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island by Hawley, Mabel C.
The town itself, however, is a busy, lively little spot—one of the most nautical in feeling and character to be found on the globe.
From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore
By comparing these with the distances carefully observed at sea the mariner may, with comparative ease, infer his longitude to a degree of accuracy unattainable in any other way, and sufficient for most nautical purposes.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
This accomplishment, by the bye, together with a surprising familiarity with most nautical names and phrases, comprised about all the English he knew.
From Omoo by Melville, Herman
In the most nautical sense, is to come to any place by water, to reach the shore.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
