OFFING

, or Offin, in Navigation, that part of the sea which is at a good distance from shore; where there is deep water, and no need of a pilot to conduct the ship into port.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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