Definition of Mateship

1. Noun. (countable and uncountable nautical) The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate. ¹

2. Noun. (countable whaling obsolete) A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition. ¹

3. Noun. Fellowship; companionship. ¹

4. Noun. (uncountable Australia NZ) Friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity. ¹

5. Noun. (countable zoology psychology anthropology) A relationship based on mating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mateship

1. the state of being a mate [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mateship

maternally
maternities
maternity
maternity bra
maternity bras
maternity hospital
maternity leave
maternity leaves
maternity ward
maternoembryonic
maternofetal
maters
materteral
materterine
mates
mateship (current term)
mateships
matey
mateyness
mateynesses
mateys
matfelon
matfelons
math
math.
math teacher
mathcore
mathemagician
mathemagicians

Literary usage of Mateship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Admiralty and Prize: Together with Some Suggestions for the by David Roberts (1869)
"mateship, so called ; Second. Payment of seamen by lays or shares of the proceeds in lieu of monthly wages ; and Lastly. The practice and power of a master ..."

2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1866)
"By a usage in the whaling business, masters of ships meeting at sea sometimes enter into a contract of mateship; so that if the ships cruise together, ..."

3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1865)
"... Black junior and Thomas Black, alleging that T. Black, being indebted * See Baxter et al. v. Rodman, 3 Pick 435, in regard to the custom al mateship. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen: According to the by George Ticknor Curtis (1841)
"mateship. See the custom explained, and the law in relation to it stated in the ... The contract of mateship, which was once rather common in the whale ..."

5. Where Socialism Failed: An Actual Experiment by Graeme Williams (1913)
"Lane's utterances upon the subject of mateship woke little ... Was it mateship to induce a man to contribute all he had in the world to the " Cause," and ..."

6. Life and Sport in Hampshire by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1908)
"I have long thought it possible that mateship can exist between birds not only ... I am not sure that mateship or the pair state must always be lost even in ..."

7. The Humanizing of Commerce and Industry: The Joseph Fisher Lecture in by Gerald Mussen (1919)
"Australian manhood was united in a splendid mateship of self-sacrifice. ... Palestine, and France that mateship was made eternal. More than fifty thousand ..."

8. Scientific Mysticism: Seven Lectures on Mysticism, the Laws of Nature by Holden Edward Sampson (1916)
"... is the mystery that makes true mates cosmically and microcosmi- cally One, and secures the same One-ness in their offspring. For true mateship rests ..."

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