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Example sentences for: nautical

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Farmer & Henley, Slang and its Analogues , defines the term as “a soldier's bastard,” although the nautical connotation occurs in a reference to The Sailor's Wordbook , which refers to women who sailed with their husbands, not to loose women.
Those of us who deal with the lexicographic side of language are well aware of what Jeans characterizes as the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.
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.
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.
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.