Crossword clues for seabee
seabee
- U. S. Navy engineer
- Naval builder
- Navy man
- Military builder
- Base builder
- WWII airstrip builder
- U.S.S. Hornet, in a way
- U. S. Naval Air Base worker
- Tool-toting tar
- Term for a naval builder that looks like an aquatic insect
- Runway repairer
- One whose motto is "Can Do"
- Nickname for a Navy dock-builder
- Navy member whose motto is "We Build, We Fight"
- Navy construction worker
- Naval base builder
- Airfield builders of WWII
- "We build. We fight" military member
- "We build, we fight" military member
- U.S. Navy builder
- Certain Navy person
- Navy builder's nickname
- Navy worker
- Luther Billis of "South Pacific," e.g.
- Naval engineer
- Wartime bridge builder
- One making camp?
- His motto is "Can Do"
- Naval construction worker
- Navy engineering corpsman
- Oceanic pollen gatherer?
- "Can do" is his motto
- "Can do" serviceman
- "Bulldog cavalry" member
- U.S. Navy engineer
- Constructive U.S. sailor
- "Can do" man
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1942, from pronunciation of C.B., abbreviation of Construction Battalion, formed as a volunteer branch of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy.
Wikipedia
A Seabee is a member of the United States Naval Construction Forces (NCF). The word "Seabee" comes from initials "CB", which in turn comes from the term "Construction Battalion". The Seabees have a history of building bases, bulldozing and paving thousands of miles of roadway and airstrips, and accomplishing myriad other construction projects in a wide variety of military theaters dating back to World War II.
A Seabee is a member of the United States Navy construction battalions (CB).
Seabee, sea-bee or sea bee may also refer to:
- Seabee (barge), a barge loading system
- Sea-bee (creature), a mythical beast
- Sea Bee, a dissolved Hong Kong football team
- Republic RC-3 Seabee, an amphibious sports aircraft
- 2C-B, a psychedelic phenethylamine in the 2C class of hallucinogenics
Usage examples of "seabee".
The Seabee moved from his place by the grenade box back to the controls.
Republic Seabee wallowing in its slip, its high wing seesawing gently.
McEvoy trudged back to his Seabee, pleased with an honest negotiation, cudgeling his memory to recall where he had seen Trnka before.
To a business-suited gentleman of endless curiosity he said yes, the Seabee was for hire but he was already booked for the following day.
The Bede arrowed westward over Lake Erie, soon overtaking the ancient Republic Seabee amphibian that galumphed along on VFR at one thousand meters altitude.
He turned back only after learning that the big float-equipped Cessna from Erie, Pennsylvania was closing from the West and had the Seabee on radar.
The old Seabee droned down the narrow lake, swooping near the shore at picturesque spots and banking out again from time to time.
He was a stocky, barrel-chested, shirtless Seabee who wore his white cap with the rim turned all the way down and looked like a beach bum.
Platt looked mystified at the reference to a Seabee and the movie business.
All air protection was removed when the carriers retired, and the particular Seabee outfit sent in with the garrison was so lazy and inefficient that by 12 February the runways were not yet ready to receive planes.
Send in Seabee units and SEALS to blast the wreckage out of the channel.
So, first thing I did was brought in a Navy Seabee and brought in a little tank, blew up a bunch of old French mines and a bunch of old American mines.
If the Seabees had been working against time from the start of the project, they now raced with disaster.
Murray gave orders: the Seabees carried them out as precisely as if they were the robots now.
He could only gather the lad closer, carry him as the cavalcade of children and Seabees moved away toward the settlement in the valley.