nautical

• naut. (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔː.tɪ.kl̩]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔ.ɾɪ.kl̩]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɑ.ɾɪ.kl̩]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnoː.ɾɪ.kl̩]

nautical (not generally comparable, comparative more nautical, superlative most nautical)

1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

   nautical charts

   I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.

   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:

     The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]

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