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MARINER
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Irregular inflected form: mariner
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who serves as a sailor
Synonyms:
gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mariner" is a kind of...):
crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mariner"):
able-bodied seaman; able seaman (a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills)
bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)
deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)
helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)
bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)
officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)
sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)
whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)
Context examples:
A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“'Tis the badge of Tete-noire, the Norman,” cried a seaman-mariner.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I answered, that I understood both very well: for although my proper employment had been to be surgeon or doctor to the ship, yet often, upon a pinch, I was forced to work like a common mariner.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and muttering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy; children, huddling together, and peering into older faces; even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My friends of the thirst and the language that was of bloom and blood laughed, as they told how the captain's swears exceeded even his usual polyglot, and was more than ever full of picturesque, when on questioning other mariners who were on movement up and down on the river that hour, he found that few of them had seen any of fog at all, except where it lay round the wharf.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would; but now— And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Now the cog's head was turned Francewards, and the shipman walked the deck, a peaceful master-mariner once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I drew it out, and at his desire, as well as I could, expressed to him the use of it; and charging it only with powder, which, by the closeness of my pouch, happened to escape wetting in the sea (an inconvenience against which all prudent mariners take special care to provide,) I first cautioned the emperor not to be afraid, and then I let it off in the air.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Of the clergyman and clerk appearing; of a few boatmen and some other people strolling in; of an ancient mariner behind me, strongly flavouring the church with rum; of the service beginning in a deep voice, and our all being very attentive.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
