rhumb
- n a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction
- The rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675.
- Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles .
- Hood sailed a shorter rhumb-line course, missed De Grasse, saw nothing amiss at the Chesapeake and went on to New York.