seamann.
/ˈsiːmən/, U.S. /ˈsimən/ 1. † c. seamen's beer n. Obsolete see quot. 1795.
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a. gen. One whose occupation or business is on the sea; a sailor as opposed to a landsman. Now only poetic or rhetorical. Also, with qualifying word: One skilled in navigation.
b. spec. A sailor below the rank of officer. leading seaman, able seaman, ordinary seaman, the three grades (beginning with the highest) of seamen in the Royal Navy. merchant seaman (see the first element).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > sailors of lower ranks or classes
foremast man1626
seaman1702
guinea pig1748
foremast seaman1793
full man1860
lower deck1874
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > ordinary seaman > leading seaman
leading seaman1884
killick1915
OE Beowulf 329 Garas stodon, sæmanna searo samod ætgædere.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 584 Brutus hit herde siggen þurh his sæ-monnen [c1300 Otho see-mannen].
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 166 That gode see-menne wold no more deferre, But bete theme home.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 164 Semen he feyt and gaiff thaim gudlye wage.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 14 The nauy..is..the maintenaunce of many masters mariners and seamen.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 18 But (on this day) let Sea-men feare no wracke. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 205 Him..The Pilot..Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell,..Moors by his side. View more context for this quotation
1702 Proclam. 1 June in London Gaz. No. 3815/2 To..Able Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, Two Eighth Parts.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xxii. 380 Our seamen are..esteem'd the best Sailors in the world.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 83 Mighty Seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by sea.
1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 104 §2 [Merchant Shipping Act.] ‘Seaman’ shall include every Person (except Masters, Pilots, and Apprentices..) employed or engaged in any Capacity on board any Ship.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The able seaman is the seafaring man who knows all the duties of common seamanship... His rating is A.B... The ordinary seaman is less qualified.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 291 The personnel of the British navy is composed of two different bodies of men, the seamen and the marines, each of which has its appropriate officers.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 295/1 The crew of a ship of war consists of leading seamen, able seamen, ordinary seamen, engine-room artificers [etc.].
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer
spruce beerc1500
March beer1535
Lubecks beer1608
zythum1608
household beer1616
bottle1622
mumc1623
old beer1626
six1631
four1633
maize beer1663
mum beer1667
vinegar beer1677
wrest-beer1689
nog1693
October1705
October beer1707
ship-beer1707
butt beer1730
starting beer1735
butt1743
peterman1767
seamen's beer1795
chang1800
treacle beer1806
stock beer1826
Iceland beer1828
East India pale ale1835
India pale ale1837
faro1847
she-oak1848
Bass1849
bitter beer1850
bock1856
treble X1856
Burton1861
nettle beer1864
honey beer1867
pivo1873
Lambic1889
steam beer1898
barley-beer1901
gueuze1926
Kriek1936
best1938
rough1946
keg1949
IPA1953
busaa1967
mbege1972
microbrew1985
microbeer1986
yeast-beer-
1795 J. Dalrymple Let. to Admiralty 2 There are four kinds of beer in Britain: Strong Beer, Porter, Table Beer, or what is called Seamen's Beer, and Small Beer.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > human hybrid > mermaid or merman > merman
seaman1569
wasserman1590
merman1601
wassera1637
marmennill1805
waterman1833
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 53 Conradus Gesner writeth that there was seene at Rome in the great riuer, a sea man, or monster of the sea.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 466 Plinie hath reported of..the seaman caught in the streights of Gibraltare.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Siren The Philosophical Transactions also contain an account of a sea-man seen in the American seas.
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attributive and in other combinations:† seaman card n. Obsolete = sea-card n.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > chart
shipman's card1530
carda1532
chard?a1560
sea-card?a1560
mariner's card1594
seaman card1636
chart1696
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart
shipman's card1530
carda1532
card of the sea1555
chard?a1560
sea-card?a1560
mariner's card1594
seaman card1636
sea-chart1669
chart1696
1636 W. Strode Floating Island iii. iii No other rarities these many Ages But Powder, Printing, Seaman Card, and Watches.
seamancraft n. seamanship.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > art or science of
ship-craft1398
shipman-craft1418
marinage1511
marinership1542
navigation1559
watercraft1566
shipmastery1593
marinary1684
sea-craft1727
seamanship1766
nautics1793
boatmanship1812
sailorship1820
watermanship1830
shipmanship1838
seamancraft1871
wayfinding1871
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 21 In the navigation of which no seamancraft could avail against miserable shipwreck.
seaman-gunner n. (see quot. 1867).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Seamen-gunners, men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby become qualified to instruct others in that duty.
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