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Sea Language :: Sea language () The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

Seam :: Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.

Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..

Tar :: Tar (n.) A sailor; a seaman.

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both..

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..

Meaking :: Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.

Corniferous :: Corniferous (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York..

Braze :: Braze (v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe..

Navigate :: Navigate (v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship..

Finedraw :: Finedraw (v. t.) To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter..

Chinse :: Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly..

Bed :: Bed (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc..

Rip :: Rip (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration..

Blower :: Blower (n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water..

Waister :: Waister (n.) A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war..

Unseam :: Unseam (v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear..

Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind..

Seaming :: Seaming (n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

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