Cruise

mar. law, is a voyage or expedition in quest of vessels or fleets of the enemy which may be expected to sail through any particular track of the sea, at a certain is usually termed the rendezvous or cruising latitude. When the ships employed for this purpose, which are accordingly called cruisers, have arrived at the destined station, they traverse the sea backwards and forward, under an easy sail, and within a limited space conjectured to be in the track of their expected adversaries.

Wesk. Ins. h. t.; Lex Merc. Rediv. 271, 284; Dougl. R. 509; Park. Ins. 58; Marsh. Ins. 196, 199, 520.