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n. (master mariner English)
Usage examples of "master mariners".
In age, height and weight the two master mariners were pretty evenly matched and if Captain Griffiths was a bit fitter Fleck knew more dirty tricks.
Trinity House, as Ryan well knew, was and is responsible for the relief of distressed and aged master mariners, but it also keeps records of all merchant seamen in distress or requiring any kind of help - all the old men with a life at sea behind them and nothing in front - together with its work in erecting and maintaining all lightships and lighthouses and being the chief pilotage authority in Britain.
The houses on the perimeter were larger than most others in the district, for they had been built to the fancy of the retired master mariners and ship owners of a century and more ago.