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Re: Origin of knot as a nautical measure of speed
Posted:
Nov 18, 2003 11:22 AM
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From: Victor Steinbok <Victor.Steinbok@verizon.net>
> Consider the
> following from the 1828 and 1913 Webster's:
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> deadwood; deadwater or dead water (different composition in different
> dictionaries), deadworks; dead-door; dead-light; dead-eye; dead
> center; dead flat; dead freight; dead head; dead plate; dead point;
> dead rise; dead rising; dead wall (likely the closest related term)
Strange that they should miss "dead ahead" and "dead astern", which may be
even more closely related.
--Lou Talman
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl
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