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pelorus
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In marine navigation , a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a "dumb compass" without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings.
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n. A device used to take a bearing on a distant object.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pelorus \Pe*lo"rus\, n. [After Pelorus, said to have been Hannibal's pilot when he left Italy.] (Navig.) An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such ...
Usage examples of pelorus.
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET 317 Dan and Sooey Wan were into a short boat and pulling toward the Pelorus five minutes after the Aorangi had been given pratique.
CHAPTER XXVIII TWO weeks later the brown crew of the Pelorus set Dan Pritchard and Sooey Wan ashore in the whaleboat.
Pelorus and Pelorias, together with the temple, which was situated upon it.
At Pacific Street bulkhead there was a trading schooner, the Pelorus, unloading copra, and Tamea spoke to the Kanaka mate in his own language.
Customs House and learned that the Pelorus had cleared for general cruising in the South Pacific, with her first port of call Tahiti.
Half an hour later the Pelorus, in tow of a launch, was slipping out of the harbor.
Tamea was as nice a girl when she left the Pelorus as she was when she came aboard.
Hackett of the Pelorus was at pains to explain for you, but I could not believe then.
He rose and walked out of, the house and down the hill to the beach, where he sat on an upturned canoe and waited patiently for the Pelorus to negotiate the opening in the reef.
Sooey Wan is ready and the sailors from the Pelorus will come for his trunk.
Hackett, when you return to the Pelorus, please send my dunnage ashore and have one of your men dump it in this veranda.
CHAPTER XXX WHEN Dan Pritchard descended into the main cabin of the Pelorus, he found Maisie seated there.
At sunset the Pelorus passed out of the lagoon and as her bow lifted to the long, lazy rollers beyond the outer reef, Dan Pritchard, from her quarter-deck, through a mist gazed back on his Paradise lost.
For the term Pelorus is the name by which the towers of Orion were called.
Verres had put the militia on alert and stationed them around Pelorus, conserving his Roman troops for whatever shape a campaign might assume, and sure that Crassus would arrive hard on the heels of the Spartacani to take the brunt of the action.