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Piloting   /pˈaɪlətɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Pilot  v. t.  (past & past part. piloted; pres. part. piloting)  
1.
To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
2.
Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties. "The art of piloting a state."
3.
(Aeronautics) To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft); to operate (an airplane).





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"Piloting" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Poole coolly. "I say, we are going now. I didn't see what he meant. We have just turned the South Rocks. Talk about piloting, old Burgess does know what he's about. We are sailing ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... piloting his ship to a slow, safe landing on a new world, had watched his instruments with care. He had seen the outer pressure build up to that of the air of Earth; the spectro-analyzer had shown nitrogen preponderating, with sufficient oxygen to support ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various
... veer in obedience to her helm, it afforded me a thrill of delight, and I wholly forgot the enormity of the enterprise in which our party were engaged. I was so pleased with my employment that I came very near devoting my life to the business of piloting a steamboat. ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic
... experiences of that period seem ludicrous enough in the retrospect. Only two or three days after my eyes were first opened I was out with a friend in search of wild-flowers (I was piloting him to a favorite station for Viola pubescens), when I saw a most elegant little creature, mainly black and white, but with brilliant orange markings. He was darting hither and thither among the branches of ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey
... branches—Maskull rested high and dry, but was more than a little apprehensive about their slow rate of progress. Presently he sighted a current racing along toward the north-west, and that put another idea into his head. He began to juggle with the membranes again, and before long had succeeded in piloting his tree into the fast-running stream. As soon as they were fairly in its rapids, he blinded the crown entirely, and thenceforward the current acted in the double ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay
... Mr. Wallingford," said Marble, giving me a squeeze of the hand, that said more for his feelings than any words such a being could utter; "and many thanks for your piloting. Is not that land I see, away here to leeward—more ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper


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