Brewer's: Shoot the Sun

(To). To take a nautical observation.

“Unless a man understood how to handle his vessel, it would be very little use his being able to `shoot the sun,' as sailors call it.” —Notes and Queries, November 19th, 1892, p. 403.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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