seaman

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  1. noun A mariner or sailor.
  2. noun A noncommissioned rank in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard that is above seaman apprentice and below petty officer.
  3. noun One who holds the rank of seaman, seaman apprentice, or seaman recruit.

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  • His skills as a seaman are ignored, and even his determination as an entrepreneur is forgotten. —  National Review Online
  • I have had considerable experience as a seaman, and would like a little more as an officer," replied Perth, politely We shall dispense with the services of all the officers except the lieutenants," added the captain. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
  • As he was becoming a thorough seaman, and read and wrote better than most of the men in the ship, the captain promised, should a vacancy occur, to give him an acting warrant as boatswain or gunner The Thisbe had been more than a year on the station. —  Won from the Waves
  • The cook was an expert in the galley and a thorough seaman; the other as able a seaman, and a navigator past the criticism of the rest His navigation had its limits, however, and this gale defined them. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
  • This is how it was: My father was a seaman, and belonged to the `Raisonable,' just fitted out by Captain Suckling, and lying in the Medway. —  The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"
 

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  1. from Middle English sǣ-mon, from Anglo-Saxon sǣman (= Dutch zeeman = German seemann = Icelandic sjómathr = Swedish sjöman = Danish sömand), from , sea, + man, man: see sea and man.
 

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