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  • noun Plural form of sailorman.

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Examples

  • Them passuls of cat's meat that they call sailormen in these days has to be handled, -- well, the superintendent of a Sunday-school wouldn't be fit for the job, unless he had a little special trainin '. "

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • Mr. Pike says they are real sailormen, even if he doesn't understand their lingo.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • "Take a look, my brave sailormen!" he cried exultantly.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope-yarns which sailormen plait.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • I learned then and for ever what quantities of drink haole sailormen can stand.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope-yarns which sailormen plait.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • The reason for this is obvious; for it would be poor business policy to sign them for any longer time, since seamen's wages are low in England, and England is always crowded with sailormen on the beach.

    THE PEG 2010

  • I alone remained among the sleeping sailormen, the giant harpooner snoring like a whale, his head upon my feet.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • Had we not been sailormen our heads would have swung round with the sight; but we stood on the dizzy edge that we might see a way to get down.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • Even the haole sailormen made pause of silence, and with open mouths stared upon her.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

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