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• Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.From the entry sea
• The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.From the entry shore
• In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.From the entry rating
• Commerce is the nursery of seamen.From the entry nursery
• Seaman, was married Saturday to Patrick Blake Belford, the son of Jane G.2015 August 23, “Michaella Seaman, Patrick Belford”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Michaella
• As the emerging seamen ran out of expletives so the Kalahari may have run out of sand.2009, Ted Macey, Merry Swan, Jack the Lad RN, page 17. From the entry crook and nanny
• This qualifies the holder of the sea card as an ordinary seaman .2005, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1051. From the entry sea card
• A frayed line is a painful sight to a good seaman.1999, Marine Crewman's Handbook: Field Manual 55-501, US Dept of the Army. From the entry whipping
• Murphy, ablebodied seaman, met in the cabman's shelter at 1:00 A.M., is another unforgettable figure.1959, Richard M. Kain, Fabulous Voyager: A Study of James Joyce's Ulysses, New York: The Viking Press, page 114. From the entry weirdlooking
• One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books, →ISBN. From the entry kris
• Seaman of Manhasset, N.Y, and the late Michael H.2015 August 23, “Michaella Seaman, Patrick Belford”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Michaella
• Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2…. From the entry aboard
• For much of the Middle Ages, ships had only three ranks of seamen: master, lodesman or navigator, and mariner.2011, Anne Crawford, Yorkist Lord: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, c. 1425 -1485. From the entry lodesman
• Boston's laborers and seamen crowded into tiny wooden two-family houses or “bachelor's halls,” many of which were located near the wharves.2007, Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution. From the entry bachelor's hall
• Tell Captain Vincent I said he's a boshter seaman.2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street, →ISBN, page 322. From the entry boshter
• The patriarch of the church hired seamen, maintained a commercial fleet and a dockyard, and regulated riverfaring and seafaring laws.2006, Hassan S. Khalilieh, Admiralty and maritime laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050), Brill, page 11. From the entry riverfaring
• Handy was a brown-faced man with crisply curling brown hair and blue eyes; a wide-handed, capable Philadelphia seaman.2000, John Clagett, Captain Whitecap, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry wide-handed
• There’s a very Puritan atmosphere here now, and the seamen are not happy. ‘All ship’s crew very happy with Calcutta.1989, Michael Palin, Around the World in 80 Days, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry puritan
• That sounds like teaching Grandma how to suck eggs but even experienced seamen can fail to appreciate the enormous stresses involved.1977, Gerald Forsberg, “Stricken vessels. Ocean towage”, in Salvage from the Sea, London; Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Routledge and…. From the entry teach grandma how to suck eggs
• The first to come up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live on ship's biscuit.1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115. From the entry scurvywort
• We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC. From the entry flophouse
• An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle.1946 August 8, Sunday Sun (Sydney). From the entry kipper
• A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive, page 46. From the entry crow
• Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13. From the entry westerly
• Boys have not lost their love for adventure, and still have `itchy feet.' Many are seeking glamor jobs, want to be writers, detectives, seamen.1950 May 7, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 13, column 3. From the entry glamour
• He looks up and greets me in the bluff good-natured way that makes him popular with everyone from Jimmy the One down to our newest ordinary seaman.2017, Martin Mace, The Royal Navy at Dunkirk. From the entry Jimmy the One
• To leave unknown seamen to drown was one thing, but Beornwulf was a Seals' Island man, and outdweller or no, he was kin to many of them.2013, Rosemary Sutcliff, Dawn Wind. From the entry outdweller
• During the midwatch a radioman striker (that is, a seaman trying to advance to radioman third class) was taking a drink of water from the third-deck scuttlebutt.1991, Paul Stillwell, “The Tranquil Twenties: August 1921 – May 1929”, in Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History, Annapolis, Md.…. From the entry scuttlebutt
• In the next year two New England seamen contracted with an English business agent in Fayal, one of the Azores, to deliver fish, oil, pipestaves, and hoops.1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 83. From the entry pipestave
• Everything Bob did was done shipshape and Bristol fashion, which is to say, as well as it was possible for a first-class seaman to do it.1923 June 16, Captain Dingle [pseudonym; Aylward Edward Dingle], “One Fathom of Rope”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday…. From the entry shipshape and Bristol fashion
• Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen.1953, Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers - Volume 2, page 213. From the entry beasterly

Meaning of seaman

1. noun Synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.
2. noun A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman.
3. noun An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice.

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How do you use seaman in a sentence?

Seaman is used as a noun. For example: “Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.”

What is a short sentence with seaman?

“Commerce is the nursery of seamen.”

What does seaman mean?

Seaman means synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.