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Enseam :: Enseam (v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen..

Duff :: Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff..

Unstitch :: Unstitch (v. t.) To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam..

Feller :: Feller (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Sloam :: Sloam (n.) A layer of earth between coal seams.

Shipshape :: Shipshape (adv.) In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

Asbestos :: Asbestos (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail..

Sempstress :: Sempstress (n.) A seamstress.

Seaman :: Seaman (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..

Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..

Chart :: Chart (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts..

Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both..

Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..

Swaddle :: Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

Seam :: Seam (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.

Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

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