Mariner

Word MARINER
Character 7
Hyphenation mar i ner
Pronunciations /ˈmæɹɪnə/

Definitions and meanings of "Mariner"

What do we mean by mariner?

One who navigates or assists in navigating a ship. noun

A seaman or sailor; one who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship. In law the term also includes a servant on a ship. noun

A. Tasmanian name for the bronze-colored shell of any one of several species of the marine gastropod Elenchus, especially E. bellulus. Also called warrener, and pearly necklace shell. noun

One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. noun

See under Compass. noun

A sailor. noun

A man who serves as a sailor noun

A sailor.

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The word "mariner" in example sentences

Furthermore, this mariner is not going to Sydney, thank you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For hours he played on indefatigably, repeating his whole repertory of Frankish discords at least a score of times, and telling all who asked that he had acquired his skill in foreign music by instruction from the greatest living master of the art -- a certain English mariner named William. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

The skill of a mariner is seen in a storm, and, in the distress of the ship, then is the proper time for him to exert himself. ❋ Unknown (1721)

For nearly a century has he figured in the legends of the prairie "mariner" -- a counterpart of the Flying ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

But we have to seek the great westerly winds well south of the Cape, and that for a mariner is a far harder task. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

This is the most natural and the most accurate measure of time for the navigator at sea and the unit of time adopted by the mariner is the apparent solar day. ❋ Ernest Gallaudet Draper (1919)

Since it was foul, we looked to you, who are called a mariner, to do so. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

His senses responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of the ocean to the mariner were the resinous scents of the forest to him. ❋ Unknown (1896)

But, on reviewing afterwards in conversation such passages as she happened to remember, she laughed at the finest parts, and shocked me by calling the mariner himself "an old quiz;" protesting that the latter part of his homily to the wedding guest clearly pointed him out as the very man meant by Providence for a stipendiary curate to the good Dr. Bailey in his over-crowded church. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

He even proceeded to deprive captain Pinteado of the service of the boys and others who had been assigned him by order of the merchant adventurers, reducing him to the rank of a common mariner, which is the greatest affront that can be put upon a Portuguese or Spaniard, who prize their honour above all things. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

The mariner was the bondsman of the sea, and to him the _Nullus liber homo capiatur_ clause of the Great ❋ Unknown (N/A)

a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of the ocean to the mariner were the resinous scents of the forest to him. ❋ Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1898)

At sea, a simpler device called a mariner’s astrolabe was used: it was a ring marked in degrees for measuring the angle above the horizon of objects in the sky. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

To his son, John, "mariner," who was in the East India service, he devised the dwelling house at Rock Creek Plantation on Goose Creek and the waterside lot in Georgetown numbered 75. ❋ Grace Dunlop Peter (N/A)

In reality, that was his little triumphant procession, and for the fifth year running it showed what kind of mariner he was. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

At times, he seems a kind of ancient mariner in this water-washed realm, and in one scene, which features a series of lit and then extinguished matches, he becomes a fire-bringing Vulcan on a strikingly minuscule scale. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2010)

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