Definition of Seadogs

1. Noun. (plural of seadog) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seadogs

1. seadog [n] - See also: seadog

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seadogs

seachangers
seachanges
seacliff
seacliffs
seacoal
seacoast
seacoasts
seacock
seacocks
seacraft
seacrafts
seacunny
seadevil
seadevils
seadog
seadogs (current term)
seadragon
seadragons
seadrome
seadromes
seaduck
seaducks
seafarer
seafarers
seafaring
seafarings
seafloor
seafloor spreading
seafloors
seafoam

Literary usage of Seadogs

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

1. The Royal Yacht Squadron: Memorials of Its Members with an Enquiry Into the by Montague John Guest, William Biggs Boulton (1903)
"The seadogs have declared that the new landing-place would be less convenient than the old, and it is less convenient ; they had prophesied that we should ..."

2. Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer: An Old-time Sailor of the Sea by John Randolph Spears (1922)
"The island abounded with seadogs, or seals, and the water was much colored and thick with rockweed." This observation was made on the way to the ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... peering around the rocks in every way For seadogs or for dolphins, or for whales as a greater prey, Of the myriads Amphitrite loud-wailing feeds at sea. ..."

4. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1891)
"Quaker owners and captains sailed some of these vessels,4 so strong was the martial spirit of these seadogs. Bownas,5 an English Friend, reports in 1702 ..."

5. Leading American Treaties by Charles Edward Hill (1922)
"The more apparent and the more effective bar to their trade with the French dominions lay in the insolent British seadogs. To allay objections from the ..."

6. The Advance of the English Novel by William Lyon Phelps (1916)
"was more at home with the seadogs of Devonshire than in a joint debate with Newman. It remained for Thackeray to write the best historical romance in our ..."

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