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Navigation :: Navigation (n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship..

Chinse :: Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

Burgoo :: Burgoo (n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen..

Enseam :: Enseam (v. t.) To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain..

Seamanship :: Seamanship (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship..

Marinership :: Marinership (n.) Seamanship.

Seamstressy :: Seamstressy (n.) The business of a seamstress.

Tarpaulin :: Tarpaulin (n.) Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar..

Welt :: Welt (n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it..

Landsman :: Landsman (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.

Blower :: Blower (n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water..

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

Instop :: Instop (v. t.) To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams..

Fresh-water :: Fresh-water (a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor..

Tar :: Tar (n.) A sailor; a seaman.

Seamy :: Seamy (a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them..

Rip :: Rip (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration..

Seamanlike :: Seamanlike (a.) Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

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