South-seamann.
/saʊθˈsiːmən/, U.S. /saʊθˈsimən/ Now historical.
A vessel trading in the (South) Pacific Ocean. Also: a whaleboat used in these seas.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > trading to or from specific place
West Indies man1587
Indiaman1588
West Indy man1616
Lubecker1627
Chinaman1653
East Indiaman1675
West Indiaman1689
South-seaman1728
Levanter1812
Indianeer1840
South Spainer1856
1728 W. Betagh Voy. round World 309 We might well wonder to find such a ship in that part of the world, but were afterwards informd by French prisoners that she was a South-Seaman bound to St. Malo.
1767 Jrnl. Voy. H.M.S. Dolphin 25 A Spanish South Seaman was obliged to put into this port in order to heave down, and repair the damage she had sustained.
1805 Naval Chron. 14 169 One Store-ship, and a captured English South Seaman.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 293 Those very people have massacred nearly the whole of the crew of a South-seaman.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ vi. 51 The clear and sweet oil..landed from a south-seaman.
1948 B. Lubbock in C. E. Fayle et al. Trade Winds i. iv. 94 The Southseaman differed from the Greenlandman in her brick tryworks necessary for boiling the oil out of the blubber.
1999 T. Severin In Search Moby Dick (2000) ii. 73 English whaleships heading for the Pacific, South Seamen as they were called, were required to carry a doctor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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