messmate

• “Ado!" cried Rodney angrily, "is it not bad enough to be called messmate by _you_, and not be able to deny it?”

  The Lifeboat

• “A letter, written by him in 1841 to his old "messmate," Commodore”

  James Fenimore Cooper

• “One authority asserts that the bird and the snake are nearly always found together, and seems to imply that a friendship exists between them, for the bird is referred to as a "messmate" of the snake.”

  My Tropic Isle

• “But I say, messmate, that is no reason why we should not believe that all these things are; but, on the contrary, that God, who creates and cares for the smallest birds, watches over us also. ”

  Peter the Whaler

• “an officers 'mess;" i.e. a meal taken in common at the same table; and so, "to mess together," "messmate," and so on.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

• “Over large areas, either of two eucalypts, messmate stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua and Smithton peppermint Eucalyptus nitida, is found emergent from rain forest, the former species on the better soils in the east and the latter on the poorer soils mainly in the west.”

  Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia

• “He reminded Olmos of his old messmate, Hopi, back in the war.”

  365 tomorrows » 2006 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa).”

  Southeast Australia temperate forests

• “Brown stringybark is restricted to soils of low fertility, whereas messmate stringybark becomes more frequent as soil quality improves.”

  Southeast Australia temperate forests

• “I was lying with my messmate on the cold and rocky ground”

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