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pilot station

noun

, Nautical.
  1. Also called pilotage. an onshore office or headquarters for pilots.
  2. an area in which pilot boats cruise.


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Example Sentences

The course was changed to west, and we cruised along for Atalaia point, towards the pilot station.

We passed the little pilot station of Dungeness, and almost directly afterwards the hamlet of the same name.

On our arrival at the next pilot station the captain put the pilot ashore, with a parting malediction in the Swedish vernacular.

The defenders were driven back along the beach road as far as the pilot station at the turn of the land.

They lost it again, yard by yard and from house to house, till the pilot station was once more in the hands of the Mataafas.

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