sea-animaln.
1. An animal or creature living in the sea.
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the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal > marine animal
beluac1440
sea-beast?c1450
sea monsterc1595
submarine1703
sea-animal1745
1745 tr. H. Egede Descr. Greenland 65 Of the Greenland Sea Animals, and Sea Fowl and Fishes.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Hippocampus,..a small sea animal caught in the Mediterranean.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. viii. 221 Mr. Bounderby..sighed like some large sea-animal.
1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 69 One of the rarest of British sea-animals.
2. transferred. Applied to a sailor.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 106 Take this same plain blunt Sea-Animal,..and you'll find him of more intrinsick Value to the Nation, than the most fluttering Beau in it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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