Definition of Seaworthy

1. Adjective. Fit for a sea voyage.

Attributes: Fitness, Seaworthiness
Also: Tight
Derivative terms: Seaworthiness
Antonyms: Unseaworthy

Definition of Seaworthy

1. a. Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.

Definition of Seaworthy

1. Adjective. Fit for service at sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seaworthy

1. [adj -THIER, -THIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaworthy

seaweedlike
seaweeds
seaweedy
seawife
seawives
seawolf
seawolves
seawoman
seawomen
seaworm
seaworms
seaworthier
seaworthiest
seaworthiness
seaworthinesses
seaworthy (current term)
seaze
seazed
seazes
seazing
seb-
sebacate
sebacates
sebaceous
sebaceous adenoma
sebaceous epithelioma
sebaceous follicle
sebaceous follicles
sebaceous gland

Literary usage of Seaworthy

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

1. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1831)
"Lord Kenyon was of opinion that under the words 'aland " from " it is sufficient if the ship be seaworthy at the time of sailing; for from the nature of the ..."

2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"The implied warranty is satisfied if the vessel is seaworthy at the beginning of ... In the following vessels were held seaworthy. Stone г'. Aberdeen Mar. ..."

3. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"Flea (oa declaration on a policy of assurance on a ship, that she was nut seaworthy, and that the loss was attributable to that defect, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"Again, in a voyage-policy on goods no warranty can be implied that the goods are seaworthy for such voyage.5 § 1172. In every contract by a common ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"In order that a boat should be seaworthy. it is not necessary that it should be provided with everything that would be convenient and pleasant to have on ..."

6. The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly (1870)
"The insurer ought to know whether his ship was seaworthy or not at the time when she set out upon her voyage ; but how should he know the condition she ..."

7. A Digest of the Law of Insurance: Being an Analysis of Fire, Marine, Life by Oliver Baker Sansum (1876)
"Upon hay on a flatboat Held, " if she •д-as not seaworthy at the commencement of the voyage, the insurers were not liable; that if she was reasonably fit to ..."

8. The Marine Insurance Act, 1906 by Douglas Owen (1907)
"39. must be seaworthy, ie seaworthy in all respects, at the commence- ment of each stage, but having regard to the implied coaling warranty in the case of ..."

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