DETAILS, FICTION AND EPOCH CROSSWORD CLUE 3 LETTERS - EPOCH OF THE FIRST WHALES CROSSWORD

I suppose one could guess with the “really feel” on the term “aloof” that it's nautical roots. At first “aloof” intended “to windward” and was the alternative of “alee”.“Tyke” continues to be employed playfully to explain a young youngster since a minimum of 1902, but for hundreds of years ahead of that a tyke was a cur or m

A helmsman could be instructed to remain aloof, to steer the boat in to the weather to maintain a distance from the lee-shore. It is from this sense of retaining a distance that aloof came to suggest “distant” in terms of individuality. Attention-grabbing, huh …?“Op-ed” is surely an abbreviation for “opposite the editorial page”. Op-e