seafaring

[ UK /sˈiːfe‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. travel by water
  2. the work of a sailor
ADJECTIVE
  1. used on the high seas
    seafaring vessels
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How To Use seafaring In A Sentence

  • It was, as far as he could tell, devoted entirely to seafaring novels, from Treasure Island to Peter Benchley. OFF THE CHART
  • It is a form of ornamentation that mixes elements of Christianity with ropes, shells, and other aquatic imagery, reflecting the nation's seafaring past.
  • Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. India's Jews
  • It resembled the brool of lions heard afar by seafaring men upon some savage shore on a still night. The Coming of Cuculain
  • The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good – bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it. David Copperfield
  • He had sole jurisdiction in maritime and seafaring causes.
  • By this it was provided that thereafter the captain of a cruiser who should impress an American citizen should be liable to heavy penalties, to be enacted by law; but as the preamble to this proposition read, "Whereas it is not lawful for a belligerent to impress or carry off, from on board a neutral, seafaring persons _who are not the subjects of the belligerent_," there was admitted implicitly the right to impress those who were such subjects, the precise point at issue. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
  • Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Erc taught him seafaring as well, for he had been a sea-bishop, taking the host to the outlying rocky hermitages, and knew the watery desert better than most.
  • Howbeit he abode amid his beaked, seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host.
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