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Pilotage

noun
1.
The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place.  Synonyms: navigation, piloting.
2.
The occupation of a pilot.  Synonym: piloting.





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"Pilotage" Quotes from Famous Books



... September) we followed, and were with wary pilotage, directed safely into the best channel, with much ado to recover the road, among so many flats and shoals. It was near about five leagues from the Cativaas, betwixt an island and the Main, where we moored our ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols
... Duppo's pilotage. Now that we were exposed to the breeze blowing across the river, our heavily-laden canoe could with difficulty contend with the waves, which, in spite of the raised gunwale, every now and then broke into ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston


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