Definition of "nautical" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation on a body of water. (adjective)

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• "[NYT] "By the way, before Cashill hit on his theory, I noted some eerie similarities between Dreams of My Father and the Horatio Hornblower novels of C.S. Forester, which also contain nautical references and are written on a high school level, but I gave up my investigation when I realized that Forrester died in 1966 and probably could not have written Obama's book.""
• "Let us not judge Ashbery too quickly … I do find his taste in nautical nonsense quite creative, which leads me to believe there is a enough of a screw loose to warrant further investigation."
• "Whilst we're in nautical mode, here's brave and how about this for actually having a dream and then living it?"