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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2007-08-17 07:19 am
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offing

offing - n., the part of the deep sea visible from shore, beyond the anchoring ground; by extension: at a distance but within sight, in the projected future.


Nautical technical term from off in, presumably, the sense of off-shore.

---L.
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