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SEAFARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel by water
Synonyms:
seafaring; water travel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("seafaring" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Domain member category:
shipwreck (cause to experience shipwreck)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seafaring"):
ocean trip; voyage (an act of traveling by water)
sailing (riding in a sailboat)
boating; yachting (water travel for pleasure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The work of a sailor
Synonyms:
navigation; sailing; seafaring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("seafaring" is a kind of...):
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
Meronyms (parts of "seafaring"):
steerage; steering (the act of steering a ship)
Domain member category:
stay ((nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar)
spun yarn ((nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together)
sternpost ((nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel)
fireroom; stokehold; stokehole ((nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired)
towing line; towing rope; towline; towrope ((nautical) a rope used in towing)
capsizing ((nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water)
beam-ends ((nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel)
bell; ship's bell ((nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.)
steerageway ((nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered)
stand out (steer away from shore, of ships)
starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)
close-hauled (having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible)
fore (situated at or toward the bow of a vessel)
atrip; aweigh ((of an anchor) just clear of the bottom)
rigged (fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc))
unrigged (stripped of rigging)
fore-and-aft (parallel with the keel of a boat or ship)
close to the wind (nearly opposite to the direction from which wind is coming)
leg ((nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack)
tack; tacking ((nautical) the act of changing tack)
accommodation ladder ((nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside)
becket ((nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship)
bilge well ((nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped away)
bitter end ((nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt)
chip (a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line)
deadeye ((nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud)
escutcheon ((nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed)
jack ladder; Jacob's ladder; pilot ladder ((nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps)
laniard; lanyard ((nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships)
lead line; sounding line ((nautical) plumb line for determining depth)
luff ((nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast)
overhead ((nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship)
ratlin; ratline ((nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft)
rudder ((nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel)
sea ladder; sea steps ((nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard)
mainsheet; sheet; shroud; tack; weather sheet ((nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seafaring"):
cabotage (navigation in coastal waters)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used on the high seas
Example:
seafaring vessels
Synonyms:
oceangoing; seafaring; seagoing
Classified under:
Similar:
marine (relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea)
Context examples:
But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I have been seafaring—better employed.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had always my eye open for seafaring men, with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He says besides, she observed, with a slow curling of her lip, that his master, as he hears, is coasting Spain; and this done, is away to gratify his seafaring tastes till he is weary.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim—him above all.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He quite laughed when I asked him the question, and said there was no fear; no man in his senses, or out of them, would put off in such a gale of wind, least of all Ham Peggotty, who had been born to seafaring.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good-bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At first I had supposed the dead man's chest to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for the seafaring man with one leg.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
