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People who work on boats & ships
bargee
bargeman
boatman
cabin crew
corsair
crew
crew member
deckhand
docker
freighter
gondolier
helmsman
longshoreman
pilot
punter
run away to seaidiom
sailor
sea dog
shipmate
stevedore

mariner | American Dictionary

mariner
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmær·ə·nər/
literature
a person who works on a ship; a sailor

Examples of mariner

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To answer this question, we must gauge judicial attitudes toward mariners' pleas by looking at an array of decisions from the sample years.
Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation.
This functional justice may have been generally acceptable to litigious mariners.
This essay estimates the fees of a suit for wages in the seventeenth century, the mariner's propensity to initiate action, and his chances of winning.
The mariner transposon of animals : horizontally jumping genes.
On the other hand, mariners would not ordinarily have expected arbitration of their claims.
The mid-century court could also, however, take exception to the last-port rule in order to benefit mariners, especially those involved in slaving voyages.
The term translates as 'sea hedges,' within which a mariner may become trapped at great peril.
The three exceptions are the women married to a mariner, a shipwright and a provincial governor.
The successful mariner-plaintiff, on the other hand, could typically enjoy his legal victory and go home with money in his pockets.
Why would a mayor go to such potentially dangerous lengths to protect a small metal bust of an obscure mariner?
The court could also protect the mariner's interests when politics altered the wage relationship.
The form assists in the portrayal of a dilemma about the past which faces the mariners in his poem.
The observation of signs and seasons was the legitimate concern of the mariner and the farmer as well as the cleric, he admits.
Recent horizontal transfer of mellifera subfamily mariner transposons into insect lineages representing four different orders shows that selection acts only during horizontal transfer.
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