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marinership

marinership noun: arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.

Noun

marinership (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
    • June 23, 1598, Anthony Ashley, letter to Sec. Cecil
      I am ashamed to think what small advantage comes to you by that foolish matter of Meverell; not so much for the loss, as for the unadvised carriage thereof; a few silly fools overcame us for want of marinership, and could afterwards sport at their...

Origin of marinership

From mariner + -ship.

Questions about marinership

What does marinership mean?
Marinership means arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
What part of speech is marinership?
Marinership is a noun.

Words near marinership in the dictionary

  1. marineras
  2. marineress
  3. marineresses
  4. Marinero
  5. mariners
  6. marinership
  7. marines
  8. marinescape
  9. marinescapes
  10. Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome
  11. Marinescu

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