What is "ditching"

Usage examples of "ditching".

Vivian Gruder stresses, quite reasonably, that it was the social identity of the group as landed proprietors that made them so apparently complaisant about ditching privileges and anachronisms to which their caste had long been attached.

In the event of a crash or a ditching the ELB, responding to shock of impact and deceleration or, activated manually, sent out a screeching radio signal that rescue aircraft could home on.

The people most interested in ditching the negotiations were the pro-Japanese faction in the Indian Congress Party, and the British right-wing Tories.

If they turned around, there was no chance they'd land back at Zamboangabut ditching in the Celebes Sea or landing at Cotabato was better than allowing this B-52 or whatever it was to head in toward the fleet unopposed.

Eighteen months after the ditchings, a nor'easter roars up the coast that, even before it's fully formed, meteorologists are referring to as the "Mother of All Storms.

At this point Bud Schwartz considered ditching the dumb shit altogether and pulling the job alone.

Teamsters left their teams and Fresnos on the Company works, ranchers left their crops and cattle, newly located settlers forsook their ditching and leveling, zanjeros deserted their water gates and levees.

She was joking about ditching Harvard and becoming a private eye—.

The Mustang suits all have strobe lights on them, and it is the first real evidence he has that someone else has survived the ditching.

Ditching the water taxi at an open slip, we proceeded on foot into the crowded town.