"dan buoy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. One theory is that the term comes from \"danger buoy\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dan buoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dan buoy (plural dan buoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 [1938], Great Britain. Hydrographic Department, chapter 1, in Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying, volume 2, United Kingdom: Hydrographer of the Navy, Dan Buoys (section 18), page 19",
          "text": "A dan buoy is usually laid from aft, the anchor and sinker being hung outboard through an after fairlead and the dan buoy hung from a tripping hook on a whip from the minesweeping davit, the mooring being led outboard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small buoy, sometimes made of cork with a small flag, used to temporarily mark a position at sea, normally to mark a fishing ground, a minesweeping area, or a man overboard."
      ],
      "id": "en-dan_buoy-en-noun-bUPuFOps",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "cork",
          "cork"
        ],
        [
          "flag",
          "flag"
        ],
        [
          "temporarily",
          "temporarily"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ],
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "minesweeping",
          "minesweeping"
        ],
        [
          "overboard",
          "overboard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A small buoy, sometimes made of cork with a small flag, used to temporarily mark a position at sea, normally to mark a fishing ground, a minesweeping area, or a man overboard."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbu.i/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dan buoy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. One theory is that the term comes from \"danger buoy\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dan buoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dan buoy (plural dan buoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 [1938], Great Britain. Hydrographic Department, chapter 1, in Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying, volume 2, United Kingdom: Hydrographer of the Navy, Dan Buoys (section 18), page 19",
          "text": "A dan buoy is usually laid from aft, the anchor and sinker being hung outboard through an after fairlead and the dan buoy hung from a tripping hook on a whip from the minesweeping davit, the mooring being led outboard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small buoy, sometimes made of cork with a small flag, used to temporarily mark a position at sea, normally to mark a fishing ground, a minesweeping area, or a man overboard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "cork",
          "cork"
        ],
        [
          "flag",
          "flag"
        ],
        [
          "temporarily",
          "temporarily"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ],
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "minesweeping",
          "minesweeping"
        ],
        [
          "overboard",
          "overboard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A small buoy, sometimes made of cork with a small flag, used to temporarily mark a position at sea, normally to mark a fishing ground, a minesweeping area, or a man overboard."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dæn ˈbu.i/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dan buoy"
}