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seamanly

seamanly adjective: seamanlike.

Adjective

seamanly (comparative more seamanly, superlative most seamanly)

  1. seamanlike
    • "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving...1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

Forms of seamanly

comparativemore seamanly
superlativemost seamanly

Origin of seamanly

From seaman + -ly.

Words formed from seamanly

Questions about seamanly

What does seamanly mean?
Seamanly means seamanlike.
What part of speech is seamanly?
Seamanly is an adjective.

Words near seamanly in the dictionary

  1. seaman recruit
  2. seaman recruits
  3. seamancraft
  4. seamanite
  5. seamanlike
  6. seamanly
  7. Seamans
  8. seamanship
  9. seamanships
  10. seamare
  11. seamares

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