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单词 sea-conny
释义

sea-connyn.

Forms: Also seacunny, sea-cunny, seconny, seacony, sea-connie, secunnie.
Etymology: Apparently a perversion (after sea n. and perhaps con v.2) of Persian sukkānī, < Arabic sukkān rudder. The word appears in 16th cent. Portuguese as socões (plural), and in English in 1805 as soucan (Yule).
A steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot
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1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Chron. 21/1 A Frenchman..concerted a plan with a Spaniard and four of the seacunnies, for murdering the officers and seizing the ship.
1801 in A. Duncan Marin. Chron. (1804) II. 355 Leaving Captain Porter, who, with six Manilla seconnies, remained on board the wreck.
1801 in A. Duncan Marin. Chron. (1804) II. 356 This seconny afterwards went back to the wreck.
1801 Naval Chron. 6 427 The Lascars..killed two of the..Seaconnies.
1806 Naval Chron. 15 471 Had on board as helmsmen (vulgo seaconies) natives of Luconia.
1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 85 The gunners and quarter-masters..are Indian Portuguese; they are called secunnies.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iv. 56 The crews are composed of..a small proportion of Portuguese sea-cunnies.
1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship III. 172 When they have the Devil for a sea-cunny they will hit their port.
1929 D. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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