单词 | seaman |
释义 | seamann. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » 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). ΘΚΠ 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.]. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Compounds attributive and in other combinations: ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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