Words similar to nautical

Example sentences for: nautical

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There is no doubt that much controversy has surrounded the interpretation of the word devil in nautical contexts and, particularly, with the expression between the devil and the deep blue sea.
In Claggart, the officer who tries to frame Billy for the crime of mutiny, we find a nautical version of Kenneth Starr.
In a random browse through the book jerry-built caught my eye, mainly because, recalling it as a reference to buildings ashore, I was surprised to find it among nautical words.
In all, aside from the dictionaries, Jeans lists twenty-eight books plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's novels; no mention is made of the Mariner's Mirror , the journal of the Society of Nautical Research, or of other essential source materials.
Jeans, an Australian as his spellings confirm, has ferreted about in the language to uncover words and phrases that have—and might have—some nautical provenance.