MESSMATE meaning: Companion with whom one eats

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messmate: Merriam-Webster
messmate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
messmate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
messmate: Collins English Dictionary
messmate: Vocabulary.com
messmate: Wordnik
messmate: Wiktionary
messmate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
messmate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
messmate: Infoplease Dictionary
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Messmate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
messmate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
messmate: Rhymezone
Messmate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
messmate: FreeDictionary.org
messmate: Mnemonic Dictionary
messmate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (messmate)

▸ noun: (nautical) An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship.
▸ noun: (Australia) Any of various eucalypts with rough bark, specifically Eucalyptus obliqua.

Similar:

matelot, mateship, matie, mess, mate, messenger, number two, mitey, make, matess, more...

Types:

black wattle, grey gum, red gum, brown barrel, red ironbark, yellow box, white box, grey box, red box, more...

Adjectives:

old, former, new, young, good, little, pleasant, poor, sick, agreeable, lost

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