Navigational item that bobs in a harbor

Usage examples of buoy.

The German victories in Europe, including the fall of France in June 1940, buoyed the Japanese into believing that alliance with Germany could help in achieving their goals in East Asia, and in September of that year Japan signed a tripartite pact with the Axis powers.

Vaughn loaded the UHF satellite message buoy, roughly the size of a baseball bat, into the aft signal ejector, a small mechanism much like a torpedo tube set into the upper level of the aft compartment.

A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.

Still buoyed up by my sense of having made a wise decision, and been approved in it by you, I went down to dinner tonight, posting my last letter en route, and found Albacore waiting to offer me a choice of dry or very dry sherry.

Pearl of the Mascarenes, the fastest aviso in the island, lay champing at her buoy.

They rotated slowly, five like the five railway lines of the city, buoyed by the massive profane urban presence below them, a fecund crawling place such as none of their kind had ever experienced before.

You are found on a buoy of the infamous pirate Feverfew, in the Border Sea of the House.

He looked for that, remembering the black cormorants that had flow from the buoy to warn Feverfew, but no birds were visible.

The charming nun said that, no longer buoyed up by the hope of seeing either of the men who alone had made her in love with life, her existence had become a burden to her, and she was unfortunate in not being able to take any comfort in religion.

All went well amid the furious cannonade till the monitor Tecumseh, taking the wrong side of the channel buoy in her anxiety to ram the Tennessee, ran over the torpedoes, was horribly holed by the explosion, and plunged headforemost to the bottom, her screw madly whirling in the air.

So far, he had been buoyed up by the excitement of the Jansky Station project.

If Sun Liping can repair the power systems of the buoy, we can certainly place it.

Shivering Sands light tower marks the start of Oaze Deep, after which the ship is brought round 30 degrees to starboard before swinging again to port to pick up the centre-line buoys of the Yantlet Channel at Number 1 Sea Reach.

I became heady, a little drunk with power and success-so buoyed by Peptide 7, then Hexin W, that I overlooked the obvious.

For a microsecond, the screens blurred as navigational tracking was shifted from one space buoy to another.