Definition of pilot

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Pilot (n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees..

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Pilot :: Pilot (v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties..
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
Offing :: Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing..
Cow-pilot :: Cow-pilot (n.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra..
Piloting :: Piloting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pilo.
Branch :: Branch (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters..
Marker :: Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment..
Governor :: Governor (n.) A pilot; a steersman.
Branch Pilot :: Branch pilot () A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation..
Boat :: Boat (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats..
Knob :: Knob (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob..
Carangoid :: Carangoid (a.) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish..
Double-ender :: Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.
Lodemanage :: Lodemanage (n.) Pilotage.
Lodesman :: Lodesman (n.) A pilot.
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees..
Gopher :: Gopher (n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
Steerable :: Steer (n.) A helmsman, a pilot..
Pilotage :: Pilotage (n.) Guidance, as by a pilot..
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