Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
seamark .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word seamarks.
Examples
-
He also studied his seamarks, and by April 24 he knew they were in American waters very near the Grand Bank.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
-
He also studied his seamarks, and by April 24 he knew they were in American waters very near the Grand Bank.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
-
These are the official seamarks for the patch of trustworthy bottom represented on the Admiralty charts by an irregular oval of dots enclosing several figures six, with a tiny anchor engraved among them, and the legend “mud and shells” over all.
Amy Foster 2006
-
And the “seamarks” exhibit itself included a sound-art work based on a recording of the speech given by Saint-John Perse pen-name of Alexis Leger, the French author of Seamarks, when accepting the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
-
His visual-art exhibit, titled “seamarks,” ran in the Walter and McBean Galleries from January through March.
-
Even missing the seamarks, one can still make port.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
-
These are the official seamarks for the patch of trustworthy bottom represented on the Admiralty charts by an irregular oval of dots enclosing several figures six, with a tiny anchor engraved among them, and the legend "mud and shells" over all.
-
These are the official seamarks for the patch of trustworthy bottom represented on the Admiralty charts by an irregular oval of dots enclosing several figures six, with a tiny anchor engraved among them, and the legend "mud and shells" over all.
Amy Foster Joseph Conrad 1890
-
Mount St. Elias, insulated in the vast extent of the seas, or placed on the coasts of continents, serve as sea-marks to direct the pilot, when he has no means of determining the position of the vessel by the observation of the stars; everything which has a relation to the visibility of these natural seamarks, is interesting to the safety of navigation.
-
Islands, rivers, capes, bays, and other land or seamarks, by which navigators usually describe their progress along an unknown coast, are almost entirely unmentioned.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.