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Webster 1913 Edition


Marinership

Mar′i-ner-ship

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Noun.
Seamanship.
[Obs.]
Udalt.

Definition 2024


marinership

marinership

English

Noun

marinership (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
    • Sir Anthony Ashley
      I am ashamed to think what small advantage comes to you by that foolish matter of Meverell; not so much for the loss, as for the unadvised carriage thereof; a few silly fools overcame us for want of marinership, and could afterwards sport at their pleasure, vaunting how cheap they passed the storm and compassed their purposes []