Usually means: Navigating diagonally against wind, current.
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  1. oblique sailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. oblique sailing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. oblique sailing: Wordnik
  4. oblique sailing: Wiktionary
  5. oblique sailing: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Oblique sailing, oblique sailing: Dictionary.com
  7. oblique sailing: FreeDictionary.org
  8. oblique sailing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (oblique sailing)

noun:  (nautical) The movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

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