Allision

Quick meaning: Allision is a noun meaning (nautical) The striking of a vessel against a fixed object; the act of alliding or an instance thereof.

Meaning

(nautical) The striking of a vessel against a fixed object; the act of alliding or an instance thereof.

More Meanings

1. (rare) The act of dashing against or striking upon.

Example Sentences

...contact of a vessel with a stationary object such as an anchored vessel or a pier. In modem practice, “collision” is often used where “allision” was once the preferred term

There have not been any islands of note, or considerable extent, torn and cast off from the continent by earthquakes, or severed from it by the boisterous allision of the sea.

1822 Walter Whiter: Etymologicon universale ...Ainsworth observes on the letter R, that its sound is formed in the upper part of the throat, but so vibrated by a quaver of the tongue, and allision on the teeth, that it makes a sound like the grinning of a dog, whence it is called the canine Letter; but the Romans, on the contrary, give it so soft and lisping a souhd, that in writing they sometimes omitted it.

Word Forms

• allisions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alliance, alighting, anchorage, alightment, association, adjection.

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