DUTCHMAN'S LOG


Meaning of DUTCHMAN'S LOG in English

Naut.

a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .