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  • noun Plural form of seamark.

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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.

    Disquiet » Beyond Laptops 2005

  • His visual-art exhibit, titled “seamarks,” ran in the Walter and McBean Galleries from January through March.

    Disquiet » Beyond Laptops 2005

  • 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.

    Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1903

  • 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.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • 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

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