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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sailor serving on the same ship as another; a fellow sailor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who serves in the same vessel with another; a fellow-sailor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
  • noun nautical (informal) Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an associate on the same ship with you

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