Word Meanings - SEAMANSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.

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• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• SEAMAN
  A merman; the male of the mermaid. "Not to mention mermaids or seamen." Locke.
• WORKBAG
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• WORKDAY
  A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• WORK
  1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir
• WORKFELLOW
  One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• WORKYDAY
  A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• WORKWAYS; WORKWISE
  In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.
• SEAMANLIKE
  Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• WORKADAY
  See WORKYDAY
• WORKFUL
  Full of work; diligent.
• WORKBOX
  A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• CUTWORK
  An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
• BOBBINWORK
  Work woven with bobbins.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• LAPWORK
  Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• BOOKWORK
  1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.
• BANTAM WORK
  Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.