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Cruise   /kruz/   Listen
noun
Cruise  n.  See Cruse, a small bottle.


Cruise  n.  
1.
A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. "He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla."
2.
Hence: A voyage aboard a ship, in which the activities on the ship itself form a major objective of the voyage; used particularly of vacation voyages, or voyages during which some special activity occurs on board the ship, such as a series of seminars.


verb
Cruise  v. t.  
1.
To cruise over or about.
2.
(Forestry) To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land.


Cruise  v. i.  (past & past part. cruised; pres. part. cruising)  
1.
To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the protection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure. Note: A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in the Baltic or in the Atlantic. She cruises off any cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant. She cruises on a coast; as, on the coast of Africa. A pirate cruises to seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the owner. "Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute." "'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure."
2.
To wander hither and thither on land. (Colloq.)
3.
(Forestry) To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
4.
To travel primarily for pleasure, or without any fixed purpose, rather than with the main goal of reaching a particular destination. "To cruise the streets of town, looking for an interesting party to crash."





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"Cruise" Quotes from Famous Books



... that lieutenant now," said Eric, "and I'm not through the first year. And after the cruise ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... visit made two or three summers before in the course of a yachting cruise, a lover of Dunnet Landing returned to find the unchanged shores of the pointed firs, the same quaintness of the village with its elaborate conventionalities; all that mixture of remoteness, and childish certainty of being the centre of civilization of ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett
... Saldanna, the last of the three commanders who were sent to cruise in the north of the Red Sea, having lost Diego Fernandez Peteira, came to anchor at a place called St Thomas, on the east side of the Cape of Good Hope, which was made famous by the name of Aquada del Saldanna, or Saldannas watering-place, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr
... Naval Academy, a two years' sea cruise, and a year of actual service had made many changes in Denman. He was now twenty-five, an ensign, but, because of his position as executive, bearing the complimentary ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... is barred to steamers: you'll never lift again Our purple-painted headlands or the lordly keeps of Spain. They're just beyond your skyline, howe'er so far you cruise In a ram-you-damn-you liner with ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling


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