leading mark

The scores reflect the three leading marks among the four athletes from each country on each round.

They got to figuring what alterations could have been made, retaining the main leading marks to show the safe channels in.

Examples of land-based sea marks are various signal lights and leading marks.

Besides, it's too bloody dangerous to enter without local knowledge; the leading marks which gave the puffers their approach have long gone an' I'm too busy to replace 'em for tourists.'

"But I tell you, Stephen, I shall give him absolute orders to return immediately if he cannot make out his leading marks at once, or at the least sign of movement ashore.

Presumably they were trained as far aft as possible and as soon as he got nearer they'd make good leading marks - by keeping this side of the line of the barrels he'd be outside their arc of fire.

Prominent among these requirements were: a) the leading marks necessary for identification of the goods; b) either the number of packages or pieces, or the quantity or weight; and c) the apparent order and condition of the goods.

The name Bearing or Direction Island was used for this feature by whalers in the area because the island and a rock patch on Nansen Island were used as leading marks when entering Foyn Harbor from the southeast.

Crofts knew enough about pilotage to realise that any entry within such fine rock-fringed tolerances allowed little time to translate electronic images into alterations of course, and he'd already seen that no leading marks remained: beacons so placed that when aligned the entry heading was immediately evident.