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Cabotage

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

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Navigation 76% connected

The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

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Right 76% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Sailing 76% connected

of Sail

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Seafaring 76% connected

Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

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(law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed

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Accoast v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

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Accost verb · 78% connection

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

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Adjutant noun · 78% connection

A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and…

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Aeronautics noun · 78% connection

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning.

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Alewife noun · 78% connection

flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

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Alongshore adverb · 78% connection

Along the shore or coast.

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Art noun · 78% connection

A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired e…

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Attention noun · 78% connection

the faculty or power of mental concentration; "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention"

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Bluefish noun · 78% connection

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: navigation, along, coast, details, pilotage.
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Broadly speaking adverb · 78% connection

without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"

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Butterfish noun · 78% connection

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlanti…

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Centreboard noun · 78% connection

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when…

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