Usually means: Line of constant compass direction.
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  1. rhumb: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhumb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rhumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rhumb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rhumb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rhumb, rhumb: Wordnik
  7. rhumb: Wiktionary
  8. rhumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rhumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rhumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rhumb, rhumb: Dictionary.com
  12. Rhumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. rhumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. rhumb: Rhymezone
  15. Rhumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rhumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. rhumb: FreeDictionary.org
  18. rhumb: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. rhumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rhumb: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rhumb: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhumb: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhumb)

noun:  (navigation) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle.
noun:  (navigation) Any of the 32 points of the compass.
noun:  (navigation) A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25°.

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