What is "sailorman"

Usage examples of "sailorman".

When the docks are all deserted and the derricks all are still, And the wind across the anchorage comes singing sad and shrill, And the lighted lanthorns gleaming where the ships at anchor ride Cast their quivering long reflections down the ripple of the tide, Then the ships they start a-yarning, just the same as sailors do In a hundred docks and harbours from Port Talbot to Chefoo, Just the same as deep-sea sailormen a-meeting up and down In the bars and boarding-houses and the streets of Sailor-town.

The ship flew before the strong westerlies and we sailormen were up and down the rigging like monkeys, often led by the fearless Captain himself, shortening or furling sails when gales blew, shaking them out when the wind slackened.

Path the sight of scaly fisherfolk and tarry sailormen gave him an inconsequent delight.

And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope yarns which sailormen plait.

Had we not been sailormen our heads would have swung round with the sight, but we stood on the dizzy edge that we might see a way to get down.

Here was me, a peaceful, law-abiding sailorman, being hounded and threatened by a blame yellow-belly I hadn't never even seen.

Before she could turn and shrink into a defensive slump, the Sailorman had pulled her against his chest and was kneading her breasts, pinching her nipples painfully: He wore his usual colognes: fish grease, old sweat, cheap rum.

Other members of the group had occupied quarters in various parts of the East End, where sailormen of all nationalities congregate.

They also came to resemble sailormen in appearance, since one hour and forty minutes after the Boadicea had passed under the tropic of Cancer the carpenter's mate banged two brass nails into the deck, exactly twelve yards apart: twelve yards of duck, needles and thread were served out to each man, together with sennet, and they were desired to make themselves hot weather frocks, trousers and broad- brimmed hats.