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Rate :: Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension..

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..

Backstitch :: Backstitch (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam..

Seam :: Seam (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal..

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam..

Enseam :: Enseam (v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.

Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..

Stretcher :: Stretch (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal..

Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction..

Reem :: Reem (v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Suture :: Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib..

Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

Seam :: Seam (n.) Grease; tallow; lard.

Seamen :: Seamen (pl. ) of Seama.

Sack :: Sack (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam..

Monk''s Seam :: Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches..

Marinership :: Marinership (n.) Seamanship.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber..

Stitchery :: Stitcher (n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.

Waterman :: Waterman (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman..

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