Words similar to nautical
Example sentences for: nautical
How can you use “nautical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Aside from the unfortunate quotation, which hardly seems nautical at all, hogwash is ordinary English, which, it may be assumed, (English-speaking) sailors used as a medium in which to couch their nauticalisms.
Lucaya is set on a fine sandy beach and the expansive Port Lucaya marina gives the whole resort a very nautical feel.
The problem is that although many such expressions have been included in Ship to Shore, many that were not nautical have also been listed.
Those that are on the ropes for this revision, include fuck-plug a contraceptive diaphragm, with a single example from a college student in 1984, a term not subsequently found despite wide questioning and extensive database searching; fuck 5.b. to trifle or interfere with (that is, the usual sense of fuck with , but without the with), found in a single example from a movie; and friggin in the rigging , a nautical expression for loafing on duty, which is too uninteresting a figurative sense even if it does have some currency beyond the single oral example we have found.
But I am aware that stockmen's vocabulary varies considerably around the English-speaking world, much more I imagine than, say, nautical, or culinary, or musical terms do.
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