sea-fardingern.
archaic.
A seafarer.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
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a1550 R. Grenville in W. H. Tregellas Cornish Worthies (1884) II. (title of poem) Another, of Sea Fardingers, describing Euill Fortune.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea~fardinger, an archaic expression for a sea-faring man.
1889 ‘Q’ Splendid Spur xix. 307 ‘Yo-heave ho!’ like the salted seafardingers upstairs. Push, push!
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