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Pilotage   Listen
noun
Pilotage  n.  
1.
The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. (Obs.)
2.
The compensation made or allowed to a pilot.
3.
Guidance, as by a pilot.





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"Pilotage" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the two islands, Wamma and Wokan. As there were several square-rigged vessels in the harbour, we tacked and made signal for a pilot, and were soon afterwards boarded by the master of one of the vessels, who to our great delight hailed us in very good English. Under his pilotage we ran in and anchored off a low sandy point, on which the traders establish themselves during their stay, by building very neat bamboo houses thatched with the palm leaf. Several hundred people, including some Dutchmen from Macassar, and Chinamen, remain throughout ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes
... what the Indians tell him about unicorns and other strange beasts in the far interior. And he thinks it likely that there is unbroken land as far as Tartary. But, making due allowance for his means of observation, the claim with which he ends his log holds good regarding pilotage: 'All things said ...
— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood
... "I hope to have the pleasure of being employed in that way in the afternoon, and I shall be glad if any other lady will trust herself to my pilotage." ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
... pirate ship was wrecked at Wellfleet, by false pilotage on the part of one of his captives, a strange-looking man used to travel up and down the cape, who was believed to be one of the few survivors of that night of storm, and of the hanging that others underwent after getting ashore. The pirates had money when the ship struck; it ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... liable to straggling, but nothing could be so bad as backing, collision, or stoppage at the obstructions. In such an attack, however, as in all of Farragut's battles, it seems eminently fitting that the commander of the column should lead. The occasion is one for pilotage and example; and inasmuch as the divisional commander can not control, except by example, any ship besides the one on board which he himself is, that ship should be the most powerful in his command. These ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan


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