What is "landsmen"

Usage examples of "landsmen".

Sailors cursed and dodged the landsmen, dangerous weights in their hard suits festooned with weapons.

Three more landsmen, technicians rather than line soldiers, sat at a humming console beneath the shed.

Despite the warning and the stanchions planted thickly in a hold designed for combat, not cargo operations, half the landsmen crashed to the deck under the braking thrust.

The visiting landsmen hovered awkwardly in the cabin, stared at by the off-duty crew members.

Most of the squadron's landsmen were combat veterans who'd fought against President Pleyal on Earth while serving in the Independent Coastal Republic.

Two-thirds of the men scurrying about the decks, urged on by the cane of Harrison the boatswain and the rope's ends of the petty officers, were landsmen most of whom until lately had never seen the sea, let alone been in a ship.

More than once the few trained seamen among them, obeying promptly, were thrown off their feet and trampled upon by the rush of landsmen still heaving away.

In six weeks he might drill his landsmen, all except that proportion of hopeless ones, diseased, crippled, or idiotic whom he could expect to find among them, into passable seamen and gunners.

And forward two hundred seasick landsmen were being driven pitilessly to their tasks by overbearing petty officers.

Harrison the boatswain down on the maindeck was squatting on a stool with two of his mates and twenty landsmen crosslegged in a ring round him — he was teaching the advanced class some of the refinements of knotting and splicing.

Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.

So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.

The landsmen and the dragons needed fresh water and they were dragging along barrels of it.

There's nothing saying that they won't have help from landsmen and if we get attacked by orcs we're all up shit's creek.

Sir Francis was a good host: he gave his guests excellent food and a great deal of wine, and he never bored or puzzled the landsmen with the doings of ships either in peace or war.