verb
definition
To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
definition
To know, understand, acknowledge.
verb
definition
To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
verb
definition
To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
example
The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.
noun
definition
Reckoning
Examples of conning in a Sentence
The disturbance of the compass by the magnetism of the hull is generally modified, sometimes favourably, more often un favourably, by the magnetized fittings of the ship, such as masts, conning towers, deck houses, engines and boilers.
Godsal ordered everyone inside the conning tower.
She was close to the eastern pier when a heavy shell burst close to the conning tower, which must have killed the commander for he was never seen again.
I immediately ascended the conning tower and by this time the object was on our starboard beam.
Shot is bang on the wreck, on the edge of the conning tower, opposite side to the picture below.
All the others are conning people in my opinion with the most outrageous untruths.
In late 1923, S-1 was modified by the addition of a steel seaplane hangar abaft the conning tower.