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Definition of Seafaring
1. Noun. The work of a sailor.
Examples of category: Leg, Tack, Tacking, Accommodation Ladder, Becket, Bilge Well, Bitter End, Chip, Deadeye, Escutcheon, Jack Ladder, Jacob's Ladder, Pilot Ladder, Laniard, Lanyard, Lead Line, Sounding Line, Luff, Overhead, Ratlin, Ratline, Rudder, Sea Ladder, Sea Steps, Mainsheet, Sheet, Shroud, Tack, Weather Sheet, Spun Yarn, Stay, Sternpost, Fireroom, Stokehold, Stokehole, Towing Line, Towing Rope, Towline, Towrope, Capsizing, Beam-ends, Bell, Ship's Bell, Steerageway, Stand Out, Starboard, Close-hauled, Fore, Atrip, Aweigh, Rigged, Unrigged, Fore-and-aft, Close To The Wind
Specialized synonyms: Cabotage
Generic synonyms: Employment, Work
Terms within: Steerage, Steering
Derivative terms: Navigational
2. Adjective. Used on the high seas. "Seafaring vessels"
3. Noun. Travel by water.
Generic synonyms: Travel, Traveling, Travelling
Specialized synonyms: Ocean Trip, Voyage, Sailing, Boating, Yachting
Examples of category: Shipwreck
Definition of Seafaring
1. a. Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.
Definition of Seafaring
1. Adjective. Following a life at sea. ¹
2. Adjective. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing. ¹
3. Noun. The work, or calling of a sailor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seafaring
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seafaring
Literary usage of Seafaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"CHAPTER V seafaring and Travel THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND ...
In a survey of the written record of the seafaring of the sixteenth and ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"They were seafaring people. The roads to the south were barely passable.
The official who carried the post-bags came twice or thrice a week, and the news he ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1834)
"Memoirs of the Rev William Henry Angus, ordained a " Missionary to seafaring
Men," May \\th. 1822. By the Rev. FA Cox, LL.D. London : Thos. Heard & Co. ..."
4. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1860)
"... we shall encounter a multitude of seafaring men ; and then looking across the
Atlantic to the South American coast, both on its eastern and western ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"How much service entitles a man to have the name and reputation of a seafaring man ?
—As to the reputation of a seafaring man, it is impossible to say what ..."
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