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Slang for a sailor, especially for a seaman in the navy. salvage tug. Sometimes called a wrecking tug. A specialized tugboat used to assist ships in distress or in danger of sinking, or to salvage ships which have already sunk or run aground. salvor A person engaged in the salvage of a ship or items lost at sea. sampan
In US Navy slang, also called a "flat top" or a "bird farm". air draft air draught maximum vertical extent of any part of the vessel above the water surface. Clearance required for passing under a bridge. [13] aka Structural section of a vessel that joins together the hulls of a multihulled vessel. alee 1. On the lee side of a ship. 2. To leeward.
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Upon death, a wicked sailor's body supposedly went to Davy Jones' locker (a chest, as lockers were back then), but a pious sailor's soul went to Fiddler's Green. [52] This nautical superstition was popularized in the 19th century. [54] Kraken were legendary sea monsters that may have been based on sightings of giant squids. [55]
In 1835 and 1836 the anonymous translator of the two-volume story Trelawney's Abentheuer in Ostindien, which was published by sailor and later author Edward John Trelawny in 1832, who kept ahoy as a loanword. In 1837 the novel Lykkens Yndling/Das Glückskind was released in Danish by the author Carl Bernhard, who had also translated it into ...
One of John Philip Sousa's lesser-known works was his "Jack Tar March", written in 1903, which featured "The Sailor's Hornpipe" tune in one of its segments. Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) is a 1908 music hall song with the line "all the nice girls love a tar".
The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...
Nicknames for a British sailor, applied by others, include Matelot (pronounced "matlow"), and derived from mid 19th century nautical slang: from French, variant of matenot which was also taken from the Middle Dutch mattenoot ‘bed companion’, because sailors had to share hammocks in twos, and Limey, from the lime juice given to British ...