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dead slow

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adverb

Nautical.
  1. as slow as possible without losing steerageway.


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The ComPilots provide the latest autopilot technology, including automatic bowthruster assist for dead slow or station keeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their program is: full speed ahead in economics and education, dead slow in politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snow squalls and heavy seas made visibility poor and forced Endurance to creep forward with the engines dead slow as it headed into Stromness Bay.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Fortunately we were going dead slow, so it was all right.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

Hayar, you mighty chief from 'Rapahoe," shouted a voice, "do yer find this yar town so dead slow as yer did?

From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Standish, Burt L.

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