SEAMANSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seamanship mean? 

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

1. skill in sailing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAMANSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skill in sailing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill (an ability that has been acquired by training)

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

boatmanship (skill in handling boats)

Derivation:

seaman (a man who serves as a sailor)

 Context examples 

I was learning more and more seamanship; and one clear day—a thing we rarely encountered now—I had the satisfaction of running and handling the Ghost and picking up the boats myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There’s as much seamanship and pluck in a good cutter action as in a line-o’-battleship fight, though you may not come by a title nor the thanks of Parliament for it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A stare or two at Fanny, as William helped her out of the carriage, was all the voluntary notice which this brother bestowed; but he made no objection to her kissing him, though still entirely engaged in detailing farther particulars of the Thrush's going out of harbour, in which he had a strong right of interest, being to commence his career of seamanship in her at this very time.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Grand!” Johnson shouted in my ear, as we successfully came through the attendant deluge, and I knew he referred, not to Wolf Larsen’s seamanship, but to the performance of the Ghost herself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This ill-directed fleet had been hustled into port by the pressure of the well-manned and well-commanded British, who had pinned them there ever since, so that they had never had an opportunity of learning seamanship.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)