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SEAMEN |
Mariners |
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SEAFARERS |
Mariners |
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COMPASSES |
Mariners’ instruments |
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SEADOGS |
Veteran mariners |
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MERMAID |
To start with, mariners admire exotic water nymph |
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SEA GOWN |
A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by
mariners. |
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BEACON |
A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near
the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners. |
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CYNOSURE |
The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as
containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were
often directed. |
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LIGHT-SHIP |
A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light,
and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for
mariners. |
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SEAMARK |
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to
mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree,
a steeple, or the like. |
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SIREN |
... writers,
of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to
sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction... |
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SEAMAN |
...nt of
ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and
common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or
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LIGHTHOUSE |
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top,
erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a
coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. |
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SCHOOLSHIP |
...he courts to be
disciplined, and instructed as mariners. ... |
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BARRATRY |
...wn
illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of
master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or
ca... |