What is "bearings"

Usage examples of "bearings".

Traversing the long dark upstairs halls, keeping my bearings by brushing fingertips against the plaster walls.

Gears -engaged with a clatter, bearings began grinding just audibly beneath the music, and the canvas began moving slowly across the stage, feeding from the full spool toward the empty.

He ran and ran, but he lost his bearings in the fog and he was going round and round a pine tree.

Two lights showed in opposition to one another, at right angles to the path of their march, and James tried to establish his bearings, knowing that what they sought was almost certain to be in the deepest part of the temple, far below the surface of the earth and sea.

Reed checked his bearings, dried his hands on his jacket, and plunged ahead, knees weak.

Recognizing the place as the one Nathaniel had described to her, Elizabeth stopped and took her bearings again.

Turning around from time to time, to keep her bearings, she noticed the wall by the evesmol resembled a curved sheet of window glass, vividly displaying the outside reddish bronze escarpment of the caldera.

As she got her bearings, they passed through an open metal gate at the end of the avenue of lights and into a wide open space like an empty marketplace or an arena for some game or sport.

She got her bearings, working out approximately which direction the conference room was in, and then set off.

After breakfast and a hasty bath in the creek, Jamie took his bearings by sun and mountain.

His actions are those of a man who has lost his bearings, if not his sanity, but not his good humor.

I entreat him likewise to forward my certificate of baptism, the seal with the armorial bearings of my family, and a legal certificate of my birth to the French ambassador in Venice, who will send the whole to the duke, my father, my rights of primogeniture belonging, after my demise, to the prince, my brother.

You have seen his armorial bearings, his certificate of baptism, as well as what he wrote with his own hand.