subs. (old nautical).—A book of sea-charts: cf. LIDDEL AND SCOTT = a dictionary; CRUDEN = a concordance. [From Baron von Waegenaar’s Speculum Nauticum, etc.]
1580. [EVANS, Life of Robert Frampton, 30]. The Captain … called for the WAGONER, to enquire whither any rock had been observed by others that had formerly used those seas.
