Also 8–9 cruize. [f. prec.] The action of cruising; a voyage in which the ship sails to and fro over a particular region.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cruise or Cruising, the Course of a ship.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. 221. A Turkish Half-Galley, armed for the Cruise, touched at a small Port.
1758. J. Blake, Mar. Syst., 64. If they are sent to sea on a foreign voyage, or cruize.
Mod. A cruise round the coast.
b. transf. and fig.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic., xiv. ‘What, you are on a cruise for a post, brother Trickle, arn’t ye?’
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. 118. To prosecute their cruise in the wilderness.
1879. Ld. Dunraven, in 19th Cent., July, 58. We started off to take a little cruise round the edge of the barren…. ‘Cruising’ is … performed on land as well as at sea.
