MESSMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does messmate mean? 

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

1. (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESSMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

acquaintance; friend (a person with whom you are acquainted)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

'Boys,' said I, 'here's Flint's treasure; let's land and find it.' The cap'n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But I am at Fladong’s, Rodney, where, if you will come and sup with me, you will see some of my messmates from the Mediterranean.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Messmates, but if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I dare say that it has happened with you, sir, said my uncle at last, that you have lost some dear messmate, in battle or wreck, and that you have put him out of your mind in the routine of your daily life, until suddenly some word or some scene brings him back to your memory, and you find your sorrow as raw as upon the first day of your loss.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Will you taste, messmate?” he asked; and when I had refused: “Well, I'll take a dram myself, Jim,” said he.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dooty is dooty, messmates.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)