Synonyms:
mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old_salt, seafarer, gob, sea_dog
Meaning: a man who serves as a sailor
Usage examples
"Then rest his soul for a true seaman!
A Translation of The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman
Evans (seaman) is generally superintending the sledging and camp outfit.
Our case appeared pretty nearly desperate; but a seaman never gives up "whilst there is a shot in the locker," or a fresh expedient to be tried.
This trouble was the natural--and I may say inevitable--result of my father's mistaken idea that he was as good a man of business as he was a seaman.
The seaman looked at Spilett in a way which seemed to say, "If it depended upon you to do it, we wouldn't taste roast meat very soon"; but he was silent.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman thus continued:--When I smote the serpent on the head with my golden staff she cast the man forth of her mouth.
There was something very winning--something jolly and care-free and honest and sociable--about the ancient seaman that made him everybody's friend; so the strange boy was glad to meet him.