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able seaman

NOUN
  1. a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills

How To Use able seaman In A Sentence

  • Emil is a man grown and an able seaman; the boy is neither. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
  • He had been over a year at sea before he essayed this able seaman's task, but he did it, and he did it with pride. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
  • But it sounds the ideal position for able seaman Prescott. The Sun
  • He was recalled for duty in 1939, being demobbed in 1945 as an able seaman.
  • State; but I advisedly assert that such colonial premium would not rear one disposable seaman for our naval service, and that even the colonial fishermen would derive no commensurate advantage, such is the impoverishing effect of the inveterate system of truck-dealing that boat fishermen, even from the harbour of the capital of Newfoundland, are chiefly paid by daily wages; the advantages derived from the employment of two half-idle fishermen being greater to the truckmaster, in the absence of an available market, than the like amount of fish caught by one customer. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
  • The Port Service's crane toppled as the Able Seaman was lifting a steel workbench from the tray of a semi-trailer on to a pontoon being used for maintenance work on the sail training ship Young Endeavour.
  • I signed on as able seaman -- _able_ seaman 'cause I was a fishing chap an 'had me Royal Naval Reserve ticket -- aboard the A Poor Man's House
  • You'll either be a cap'n's servant or ‘prenticed to one of the craftsmen, but likely not an able seaman just yet.’
  • In fifty-odd years as a deckhand, stock tender, able seaman, and now captain, I became increasingly alarmed by the growth in plastic debris I was seeing.
  • Every clodhopper an 'cow-walloper these days is an able seaman. CHAPTER II
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