MARINER (mariner)

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Irregular inflected form: mariner   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mariner mean? 

• MARINER (noun)
  The noun MARINER has 1 sense:

1. a man who serves as a sailor

  Familiarity information: MARINER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who serves as a sailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar

Hypernyms ("mariner" is a kind of...):

crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mariner"):

able-bodied seaman; able seaman (a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills)

bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)

deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)

helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)

bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)

sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)

whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)

 Context examples 

I went over and read:—"Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, æt. 30."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The wise mariner stands far out from that evil place.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here am I with but half my mariners, and a hole in the ship where that twenty-devil stone struck us big enough to fit the fat widow of Northam through.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in lat. 15º N. and long 25º W., and then cut the painter and let us go.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A labour-saving device for mariners, navigation reduced to kindergarten simplicity,” he answered gaily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I'd have had you but for that there lurch, but I don't have no luck, not I; and I reckon I'll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like you, Jim.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In this rough clothing, with a common mariner's telescope under his arm, and a shrewd trick of casting up his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather, he was far more nautical, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

DNA transposable elements include bacterial IS (insertion sequence) elements, Tn elements, the maize controlling elements Ac and Ds, Drosophila P, gypsy, and pogo elements, the human Tigger elements and the Tc and mariner elements which are found throughout the animal kingdom.

(DNA Insertion Elements, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

When you think that in the last year of the war we had 140,000 seamen and mariners afloat, commanded by 4000 officers, and that half of these had been turned adrift when the Peace of Amiens laid their ships up in the Hamoaze or Portsdown creek, you will understand that London, as well as the dockyard towns, was full of seafarers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)