depress the pole

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English

Verb

depress the pole (third-person singular simple present depresses the pole, present participle depressing the pole, simple past and past participle depressed the pole)

  1. (nautical) To cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “depress the pole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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