Word Finder - sailor

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A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels

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Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.

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He's a talented sailor and has spent many years at sea.

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A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

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A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

I am going to be a sailor and nothing else.

I feel more like a ship's sailor in a storm, with shredded sails with someone handing me a needle and thread.

A sailor's life is indeed a hard life.

He was the son of the giant sailor Wate and of a mermaiden.

A sailor brought them to Los Angeles and I gave him nine tickets to the circus for them.

A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship.

We try to keep water in the base but the tree drinks it as fast as a sailor on a twelve hour leave.

Prince Louis of Battenberg, a most patriotic and capable sailor, unjustly attacked because of his German origin, tendered his resignation as First Sea Lord, and Mr. Churchill put in his place the indefatigable veteran, Lord Fisher.

The people were soldiers and little else; even the sailor belonged to Babylonia.

Out of such conditions arose the buccaneer, alternately sailor and hunter, even occasionally a planter - roving, bold, unscrupulous, often savage, with an intense detestation of Spain.

Second only to the compass in its value to the sailor is Thomson's sounding apparatus, whereby soundings can be taken in 100 fathoms by a ship steaming at 16 knots; and by the employment of piano-wire of a breaking strength of 140 tons per square inch and an iron sinker weighing only 34 lb, with a selfregistering pressure gauge, soundings can be rapidly taken in deep ocean.

He was big and strong and soon became a fine sailor.

This is probably a simple votive tablet carved by a Roman Sailor.

In nautical phraseology various usages of the term are derived from its association with a sailor's leave on shore, e.g.

However far he has walked, whatever strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the same sergeant major Ivan Mitrich, the same company dog Jack, and the same commanders.

He looks so smart in his sailor hat and collar.

Once aboard my flight I spent the next several hours squeezed between a talkative sailor and a woman with a fussy child.

But the triumph of the navy in 480 and the great expansion of commerce and industry had definitely shifted the political centre of gravity from the yeoman class of moderate democrats to the more radical party usually stigmatized as the " sailor rabble."

Born in a stirring seaport, the son of a distinguished naval officer, he naturally adopted the profession of a sailor.

This work is little more than a sailor's handbook of places and distances all round the coast of the Mediterranean and its branches, and then along the outer Libyan coast as far as the Carthaginians traded.

There was a charming side to his trustful simplicity, which was at times almost like that of a sailor set ashore.

The remnant of Ewell's corps was cut off at Sailor's Creek, and when Sheridan got ahead of the Confederates while Grant furiously pressed them in the rear, surrender was inevitable (April 8).

A statue of the sailor La Perouse (1741-1788) stands in the square named after him.

The tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor in the Red Sea was a piece of simpler writing, not unpicturesque, of the marvellous type of a Sindbad story.

His earliest governesses were the wives of a tailor and a vintner from the Dutch settlement; a sailor called Norman taught him the rudiments of navigation; and, when he grew older, he was placed under the care of a Hungarian refugee, Janos Zeikin, who seems to have been a conscientious teacher.

After the loss of a reconnoitring party sent south, Bartlett decided to await the return of daylight before making a move, but Murray, Forbes Mackay, Beuchat and a sailor, eager to attempt the journey, set off for the land, with Bartlett's permission but contrary to his advice.

The introduction of the clinical thermometer, which allows us to ascertain exactly the amount to which the temperature rises in fever or to which it is reduced by antipyretic measures, is to the physician like the compass to the sailor, and allows him to steer safely between two extremes.

In the following year Estevan Gomez, a Portuguese sailor in the service of the emperor Charles V., in his reputed voyage southward from Labrador, is said to have made note of the Hudson and Delaware rivers.

One was founded on the description by the Swedish sailor Niklas KBping of the ferocious men with long tails inhabiting the Nicobar Islands.

One of these apes, it was related, served as a sailor on board a Jamaica ship, and used to wait on the captain.

But before old age came on him, Boudin's father abandoned seafaring, and the son gave it up too, having of course no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character, - frankness, accessibility, open-heartedness.

The sailor reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human.

O ' Sailor's discordant piano riff sounds suitably creepy, but it might easily have sounded cartoonish.

The first magnolia grandiflora was brought to Nantes by a sailor from Virginia in about 1711.

The D Class lifeboat had to make a rapid return to the station with one sailor who was suffering from severe hypothermia.

Mr Cottle and Mr Hubbard both being unfortunately indisposed, Mr Mortleman obliged with one of his ever welcome sailor songs.

The Turkish sailor's luggage (which didn't seem to contain a wrestler's jockstrap) came next under scrutiny.

You play, Jacob, like a bonnet laird, or a sailor in a tavern.

Hi, I'm a novice sailor and have had difficulty raising the mainsail while underway on a solo sail.

Almost frantically, like a shipwrecked sailor calling up a bottled genie, Geller strokes the fork, waiting for the miraculous to happen.

We have a range of products for the cruising sailor, ranging from the Cruising Almanac to rugby shirts adorned with CA logos.

We have a range of products for the cruising sailor, ranging from the Cruising Almanac to Rugby shirts adorned with CA logos.

The sailor, extremely vexed, tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire.

Self-taught sailor of small physical stature who holds world solo yachting records Ray Charles.

He decided, therefore, to become a sailor, and, in 1848, tramping across the country to Cleveland, Ohio, he sought employment from the captain of a lake schooner.

He is represented as a morose and grisly old man in a black sailor's cape.

They said that a bright boy like George would not long be a common sailor.

He agreed to take the boy with him and teach him how to be a good sailor.

Give me a few common tools and some food, and I will do well enough, said the sailor.

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life.