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sea-conny
Also seacunny, sea-cunny, seconny, seacony, sea-connie, secunnie.
[App. a perversion (after sea n. and perh. con v.2) of Pers. sukkānī, f. Arab. sukkān rudder. The word appears in 16th c. Pg. as socões (pl.), and in English in 1805 as soucan (Yule).]
A steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars.
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. III. 21/1 A Frenchman..concerted a plan with a Spaniard and four of the seacunnies, for murdering the officers and seizing the ship. 1801in A. Duncan Marin. Chron. (1804) II. 355 Leaving Captain Porter, who, with six Manilla seconnies, remained on board the wreck. Ibid. 356 This seconny afterwards went back to the wreck. 1801Naval Chron. VI. 427 The Lascars..killed two of the..Seaconnies. 1806Ibid. XV. 471 Had on board as helmsmen (vulgo seaconies) natives of Luconia. 1810M. Graham Jrnl. Residence India (1812) 85 The gunners and quarter-masters..are Indian-Portuguese; they are called secunnies. 1832Marryat N. Forster xli, The crews are composed of..a small proportion of Portuguese sea-cunnies. 1888Clark Russell Death Ship III. 172 When they have the Devil for a sea-cunny they will hit their port. 1929D. J. Munro Roaring Forties xxxii. 160 With a crash and lurch that sent the secunnie (helmsman), at the wheel flying over the top of it the ship struck. |