Concept cluster: Recreation > Maritime occupations
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(nautical) able-bodied seaman
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(Britain, Royal Navy) A rating who is qualified to perform certain duties of seamanship.
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Alternative form of able-bodied seaman [A seaman, especially one in the merchant navy, who has been trained or certified in all routine duties; a member of the Royal Navy rated between ordinary seaman and leading seaman or boatswain's mate]
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A seaman, especially one in the merchant navy, who has been trained or certified in all routine duties; a member of the Royal Navy rated between ordinary seaman and leading seaman or boatswain's mate
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(nautical) The person on a ship in charge of the anchor.
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(chiefly UK, naval slang, obsolete) A warship.
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A merchant flotilla, fleet.
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The Spanish Armada which sailed against England in 1588.
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(nautical, chiefly historical) A merchant ship equipped with weaponry for defense against pirates, etc.
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(UK, nautical, idiomatic) A picnic or cookout for the ship's crew.
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A member of the crew of a barge.
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(slang) A worldly sailor.
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(maritime, admiralty law) A ship's master who commits gross fraud or barratry.
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(nautical) A sailor keeping a lookout from the crow's nest (often in the form of a barrel)
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(US, naval) A sickbay nurse.
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Describing seamen rather than officers
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A chapel, especially one for sailors, converted from an old ship.
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(obsolete, circa 1700s) A native African longshoreman or sailor working on a boat.
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A vehicle, typically a naval one, with the purpose of bringing cargo across a military blockade.
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A ship used in blockading
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(Britain, Ireland, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
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Bangladesh Naval Ship. A designation for ships in the Bangladesh Navy.
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Alternative form of bosun
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(nautical) The group of sailors who were selected to board an enemy ship and, when in control, to make such repairs to rigging and sail that the ship could be taken to port as a prize
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(historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing.
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(nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines
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(Christianity) A junior altar server in Catholic and Anglican churches, an assistant to the thurifer.
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Alternative spelling of boatmate [Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.]
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The construction of a boat or boats.
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(nautical) One who works on a boat, especially as captain.
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(historical) A person who operated small-crew open fishing boats and fishing rooms on the shores around Newfoundland in the early 19th century.
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A man in charge of a small boat.
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(nautical) A person officially qualified to be in charge of a vessel of a specified category.
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Someone with whom one shares a boat, or with whom one works on a boat.
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Someone who owns a boat
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A boatman or boatwoman.
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A boatman.
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A maker of boats or ships; shipbuilder.
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The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
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A petty officer assisting the boatswain aboard ship.
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A woman who manages a boat.
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A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.
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(historical) A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
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Alternative form of bosun.
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(obsolete) A boatswain.
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Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”) [The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.]
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(nautical) Synonym of boatswain's chair
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(nautical) A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.
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(historical) A ship's pilot who has been awarded Trinity House certification.
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(nautical, historical) A young ship's apprentice whose parents paid for him to have certain privileges on board.
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(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
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A woman who pilots a bumboat.
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(naval slang, historical) A married member of the navy.
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(historical) in old Russia, a man employed in dragging barges or ships upstream.
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A private room on a ship.
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(historical) A native African official responsible for supplying slaves to slave traders.
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(nautical, chiefly Canada) A vessel of a design modified for use in a particular canal.
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A boatman who works on a canal.
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(chiefly Canada) A canoeist.
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A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
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(nautical) A person employed to expose the side of a ship by tilting it to carry out cleaning and repairs.
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(nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
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(historical, nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
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Alternative form of shantyman [(nautical, music) The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)]
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Any of five ships of the United States Navy.
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(historical) A ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.
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(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
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A fast, unarmoured, lightly armed naval vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy.
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(nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
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(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
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(nautical) A ship's chandler in the Far East.
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(nautical, historical) The United States Navy between 1775 and 1794.
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(historical) A ship belonging to the East Indies, and trading from port to port in that country.
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(Canada, slang) A coxswain.
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(archaic) The second or third mate of a vessel, in charge of the master's barge.
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A member of the navy employed to load projectiles onto a cradle prior to firing.
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(US, nautical) A senior enlisted sailor qualified to operate small vessels and support craft.
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(nautical) A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience.
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One who goes travelling on a cruise.
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One who attends cruises.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of cruse. [(religion or obsolete) A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.]
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(nautical) An ordinary seaman.
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A member of the U.S. Coast Guard with 7 years or more of sea duty.
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A man who works on the deck of a ship.
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A dockworker.
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Someone who works at a dock.
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A man who works on a dock.
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Someone in charge of a dock, or of docking.
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A laborer employed in a dockyard.
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A sailor who works on a dogger (two-masted fishing vessel).
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(nautical) The person in charge of a ship's engine room.
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(nautical) Any vessel fitted with drilling equipment
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(historical) A commerce raider who operated a warship in the service of the Spanish Empire, during the Dutch Revolt, from the ports of the Flemish coast: Nieuwpoort, Ostend, and in particular Dunkirk.
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(nautical, by extension) A captain of a vessel who has little or no authority.
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(historical) Any ship operating under charter or licence to one of the East India Companies, which were each granted monopoly trading rights with the East Indies by one of several of the major trading powers of the 17th—19th centuries.
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(nautical) a vessel, usually part of a fleet, which processes catches of fish or whales while at sea
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(shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
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A man who operates a ferryboat.
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A man who operates a ferry.
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(nautical, slang, obsolete) A person's face.
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(nautical) A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.
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(UK, military, nautical, historical) A first-rate ship of the line.
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(nautical) The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet.
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(nautical) An impromptu musical band on late 19th-century sailing vessels, made up of members of the ship's crew.
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Any sailor below the rank of petty officer.
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A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
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(nautical) Unskilled as a seaman.
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A military diver, e.g. a US Navy SEAL.
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(historical) A ship for transporting fruit.
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Alternative form of galley slave [(historical, nautical) A slave who rows in a galley (type of ship).]
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A man in charge of a ship's gangway.
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(dated) A swift steamer, especially an ocean steamer.
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A boy serving on a ship.
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(now historical) A ship trading with the coast of Guinea; a slave ship.
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(historical) A Mogul treasure ship that was captured by famed pirate Henry Avery in August of 1695.
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Alternative form of harbourmaster [(British spelling, Canadian spelling, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.]
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(US, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
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(British spelling, Canadian spelling, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
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(informal, nautical) A merchant navy sailor promoted to be an officer without attending an academy
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(nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.
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(figuratively) A leader.
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(uncommon) A helmsman or helmswoman.
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A woman who steers a ship.
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(nautical) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
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Ellipsis of Horatio Hornblower., a fictional sea captain created by C.S. Forester, of the sail, iron men and wooden ships era.
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(US navy, slang) USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
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The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
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Alternative form of hoveller [(UK, dialect) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.]
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One who navigates a hoy (sailing vessel).
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(nautical) An unqualified pilot, typically employed by the crew of a barge
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(nautical) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's manager, or "husband".
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Alternative spelling of icebreaker [A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.]
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A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.
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(nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch
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(nautical) A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company.
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(Britain) A sailor in the Royal Navy.
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(nautical) A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship
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(naval, slang) A ship's tailor.
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(navy, slang) Strenuous manual work; pulling or hauling; muscle power.
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(nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
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Obsolete spelling of carvel [(nautical, historical) Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”)]
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The person who operates a keelboat.
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An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
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Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel on a lake.
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A wharfman who resides near a lake.
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A person who does not go to sea, who lacks the skills of a sailor or who is uncomfortable on ships or boats.
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(now chiefly historical) A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship.
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(nautical) A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of water.
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(naval) The design and specification of a vessel.
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Person who cares for a particular stretch of canal, railway, or road, esp. in the British Isles.
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(nautical, historical) A ship that has been armed for such a task.
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A man who crews a lifeboat.
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Of a person: living on board a boat.
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(historical) In 18th- and 19th-century warships, a non-professional (male) assistant to the ship's surgeon.
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(dated, nautical) A sailor.
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The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
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A man who operates a lock on a river or canal.
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(historical) A share in a Genoese trading vessel.
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(historical, nautical) A pilot; navigator.
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(US) A man employed to load and unload ships.
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A longshoreman or longshorewoman.
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A sailor assigned to the mainmast
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A suit, especially worn in the 19th century, with long trousers and wide-brimmed straw sailor hat.
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(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
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(military, nautical) A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship
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A sailor.
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(archaic) Arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
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A ship commissioned for making captures.
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(nautical, sailing) A sailor who is charged with tending the halyards and other lines near the mast
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A sailor.
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(nautical, slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.
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A trading vessel; a merchantman.
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(uncountable) Synonym of merchant navy. The fleet considered as an entire combined force.
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A sailor who works on a merchant marine
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A marine cargo vessel.
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A cargo ship, engaged in commercial activities, as opposed to a warship.
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(nautical) a member of the crew who works with the mast and often packs the sails below deck.
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(nautical, slang) a midshipman
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A midshipman fish.
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(nautical, slang, archaic) A little or petty midshipman.
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A male or female midshipman.
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A naval vessel that actively detects and destroys individual mines.
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Alternative form of mizzentopman [A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship]
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Alternative form of mizzentopman [A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship]
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A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship
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(nautical, rare) The person who moors a vessel
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A person who designs ships or who plans and superintends the construction of ships.
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An advocate of the navy or of naval power.
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(obsolete) naval affairs
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A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
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Obsolete spelling of navy [(countable) A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.]
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(obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
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Alternative form of navvy [(chiefly Britain) A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.]
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(Britain, intransitive) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
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(countable) A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
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(obsolete) A sailor.
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(nautical, slang) A first mate.
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A female oarsman.
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Someone who travels on the ocean
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(nautical, of a vessel) designed for use on ocean voyages
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(rowing) A man who trains in company with a boat's crew, so that he can take the place of anybody who falls ill.
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(nautical) A seaman aboard a packet
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Alternative spelling of passagemaker [(nautical) A vessel designed for, or capable of, making a long-distance voyage.]
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(nautical) A vessel designed for, or capable of, making a long-distance voyage.
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(UK, naval slang) The petty officers' mess steward.
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A pirate or picaro.
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The person in charge of a pier.
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A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
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Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.
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Alternative form of pirate ship [Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.]
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A workman who fits planks to a ship.
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(Britain, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
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(historical, nautical) Left-over residue in a cask of rum.
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(nautical) The persons employed to carry gun powder from the ship's magazine to the gun deck during a battle; in the 18th century Royal British and U. S. Navies, this task (also carrying water) during battles became a permanent nickname for the ship's cabin boys and apprentice seamen.
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(obsolete) A person in charge of a press gang, who was authorized to press recruits into the navy.
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(historical) A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.
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The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
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(nautical, slang) assumed name
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A foreman in a shipyard
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(nautical) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.
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A man who works on a quay.
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A harbourmaster in charge of a quay
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A raftsman.
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A man who steers a raft.
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A person who transports a raft of floating logs downstream to a sawmill; a rafter.
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(military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
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(nautical) A seaman in a warship.
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(chiefly US) A person who is an experienced worker or traveler on a riverway.
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A person responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of a river.
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A man who lives or works on a river.
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A woman who lives or works on a river.
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Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
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(obsolete, nautical, slang) An officer who is incompetent, or not well-suited for the seas.
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The practice of having passengers eat in several different restaurants during a cruise.
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A pirate ship.
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The British navy; formed in the 16th century, although England has had naval ships since before the time of Alfred the Great.
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The fast boats used by these smugglers.
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(obsolete) A worker in charge of stowing cargo on a ship.
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A go-fast boat; a powerboat of the type associated with the smuggling of rum.
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(obsolete) The navigating officer of a warship.
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(US, naval) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.
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A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
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A male sailor.
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Obsolete spelling of sailor [A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels]
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(nautical) A vessel used as a reformatory.
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(archaic) A boy employed on a ship.
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(nautical) A common name for what is formally called a seaman's chest. A box or case which is used to store a sailor's property.
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(historical) One of the Norse leaders who roved the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief.
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(nautical, slang) A rules lawyer.
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The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
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(UK, naval, historical)
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A pirate.
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(dated, nautical, music) A work song that sailors sang in rhythm to their movement.
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Alternative form of sea lawyer [A lawyer who specializes in maritime law.]
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A member of this force.
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Alternative form of seacunny [(historical or India) A lascar helmsman.]
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A pirate.
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A sailor or mariner.
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The work, or calling of a sailor.
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(New Zealand) To work as a non-union casual stevedore.
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A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
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(US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below seaman apprentice.
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Befitting a seaman.
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seamanlike
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(nautical) Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel at sea.
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A sailor who is hired for a season.
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A person involved in seasteading.
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A female sailor; a woman who serves on a ship at sea.
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Alternative form of seacunny [(historical or India) A lascar helmsman.]
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(historical) In the 19th century, an ex-slave, rescued from French, Portuguese or Zanzibari vessels off north-east Africa and locally recruited into the Royal Navy.
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A man who works in a sewer.
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Alternative form of shebander [The master of a harbour or port in the East Indies.]
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A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
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(nautical, music) The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
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Alternative form of shareman [A fisherman whose pay consists of a share of the profits.]
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The master of a harbour or port in the East Indies.
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Alternative form of shebander [The master of a harbour or port in the East Indies.]
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(nautical) someone who controls the trim of the sails.
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A worldly sailor.
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(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
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A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
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A chandler (retailer specialising in equipment for ships)
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Alternative spelling of shipfitter [A person employed to fabricate and assemble the structural parts of a ship.]
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(archaic, military) warship
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(nautical) A petty officer who assists the master-at-arms in his various duties.
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(dated, nautical) An agent who has the authority to repair and outfit a particular ship
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Alternative spelling of shipbuilder [A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.]
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Alternative spelling of ship of the line. [(nautical, military) A large square-rigged warship large enough to have a place in the line of battle, with up to 140 guns on at least two decks. A capital ship from the age of sail, superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker.]
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Shipwreck.
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One who works in shipbreaking.
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(nautical) An intermediary who negotiates between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping
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(nautical) The work of a shipbroker, negotiating between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping.
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(uncountable) The construction of ships.
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A person employed to fabricate and assemble the structural parts of a ship.
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(historical) An Anglo-Saxon naval force or militia; naval fleet; navy.
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A person maneuvering a ship.
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The owner of a ship.
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A vessel or missile capable of destroying ships.
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A shipmaster; skipper; captain.
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(obsolete) The master of a ship; shiplord.
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The master of a ship; a captain; a commander.
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(nautical) Someone who owns a ship.
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Owning a ship.
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A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who worked on a ship
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(UK, dialectal) A stable; a cowhouse.
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(archaic) A seaman; mariner; skipper.
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line (The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry)
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The official who witnesses signature by the sailors of the articles of agreement.
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A person who works in a shipyard.
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One who is shipwrecked.
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Characteristic of a shipwreck.
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A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.
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A place where ships are built and repaired.
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(nautical) One of an even-numbered group of seamen posted in two rows on the quarterdeck when a visiting dignitary boards or leaves the ship, historically to help (or even hoist) him aboard.
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(naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
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(nautical) The master of a ship.
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(rare) Befitting a skipper, the master of a ship.
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(historical) A ship designed for the transportation of slaves, especially during the 17th and 18th century.
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(nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.
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(nautical) A small vessel.
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(nautical, now historical) A certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money.
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A vessel employed in smuggling.
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(US navy, slang) USS Spruance (DD-963)
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(US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
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(UK) A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
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A superior cabin for a ship's officer or captain.
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A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
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Obsolete form of steersman. [(nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.]
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Alternative form of steersman [(nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.]
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(nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.
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(nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
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(nautical) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, etc.
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(obsolete) An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.
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(nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
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A person skilled in handling boats in surf.
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(Australia, navy, slang) A Tasmanian seaman.
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(nautical, dated) An officer who is severe in discipline.
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(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
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A customhouse officer who goes on board a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
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(obsolete) A helmsman.
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(India, dated) A petty officer among lascars; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
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The R.M.S. Titanic, an ocean liner, supposedly unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
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(nautical) a ship, often a sailing ship, used to train people as sailors
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(historical) A type of vast, multi-masted Chinese vessel used on the Ming treasure voyages, led by Zheng He in the first half of the 15th century, used for command purposes and the transportation of treasure.
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(nautical) The captain of a trireme.
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A man who pilots a tugboat.
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(historical) The ship of a Barbary pirate.
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Union of Burma Ship. The designation of ships in the Burmese Navy.
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Obsolete spelling of vessel [(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.]
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(nautical) A supply ship.
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(UK, historical) A public establishment for the collection and supply of provisions to the navy.
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(obsolete) An agent of the Crown with responsibility for protecting specific maritime activities, such as shipping or fishing.
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(nautical) A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship.
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(nautical) The commissioned officers of a ship, excluding the captain.
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One who wassails.
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(figuratively, colloquial) An individual doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
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(US, naval, historical) A first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom, who supplies the boilers with water, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc.
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Alternative form of water carrier [(usually historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.]
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(obsolete) A seaman, a sailor.
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(New Zealand) A loader and unloader of a ship's cargo
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(rare, archaic) A thief or robber on the water, hence, a pirate.
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(Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.
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(slang) A man who hangs around a wharf in the hope of finding temporary work there.
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A man who works on a wharf.
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The supervisor in charge of a wharf.
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(nautical) The steersman on a ship.
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(nautical) helmsman
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The person who pilots a wherry.
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(slang) A sailor.
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A man who operates a winch.
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A wooden ship.
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Someone appointed to take charge of any goods and debris arriving on to the shore after a shipwreck.
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The site of a shipwreck.
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(US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
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The realm or sphere of yachting.
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(dated) A yachtsman.
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A man who sails a yacht.
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One who sails a yacht.
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A woman who sails a yacht.
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(chiefly African-American Vernacular) Clipping of biatch.
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One who sails a yawl.
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One who sails a yawl.
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(obsolete, nautical, back slang) A midshipman.
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A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
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(US, nautical) A yeoman or yeowoman.

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