Crossword clues for seamen
seamen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seaman \Sea"man\, n.; pl. Seamen. [AS. s[ae]man.] One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship.
Ordinary seaman. See Ordinary.
Seaman \Sea"man\, n.; pl. Seamen.
A merman; the male of the mermaid. [R.] ``Not to mention
mermaids or seamen.''
--Locke.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of seaman English)
Usage examples of "seamen".
The guns' crews exercised at the carronades and the seamen practised charging the quay, watched by wide-eyed children and curious adults.
And the seamen would not be prepared for them: they had orders not to move until they heard the three rockets which would stop the carronades firing.
It was only the seamen who went without: a ship was issued with so many casks of salt beef and salt pork for a commission or voyage, and that was that: the men just had to make it last.
He has a couple of loblolly men and three seamen to help him, and that's enough.
Was that as a result of the Revolution, that seamen no longer bothered about things like figureheads?
These French seamen will probably be the first enemy they've ever seen.
Lieutenants Kenton, Martin and Hill will command detachments of seamen and the guns they will handle.
Ramage, thinking of the practical effect of keeping men shut up in houses and stables for days on end, had finally arranged with the mayor that the town should go about its ordinary business - which meant that the seamen and Marines were allowed out in the street -until the bells of the church, also called San Angelo, should start tolling.
Because Ramage knew that ringing church bells was a skilled job, he sent two seamen - whom he would have with him in the castle as messengers - with the mayor to find one of the bellringers and to get instructions how to toll the bells of San Angelo.
One of the rockets would be enough: the guns' crews and the seamen with their muskets would watch the Saracens landing, after being alerted by the church bells, and they would be waiting for the rocket to soar overhead, giving them the signal to open fire instantly.
The mayor, who was looking on with Ramage, was most impressed, except that he thought that the Saraceni would probably outnumber the seamen and Marines.
Ramage agreed, thinking too of the screams of the Saracens and the seamen, apart from the rattle of musketry.
In the houses seamen and Marines would be cocking their muskets and pistols.
Then the muskets crackled again as seamen and Marines fired the spare guns they had beside them.
And Ramage realized he had made a mistake in keeping the guns and the seamen and Marines separate: there were no men to guard the guns.