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Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.

Seamen :: Seamen (pl. ) of Seama.

Seam :: Seam (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

Suture :: Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam..

Seaman :: Seaman (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.

Ramble :: Ramble (n.) A bed of shale over the seam.

Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting..

Sewster :: Sewster (n.) A seamstress.

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..

Asbestos :: Asbestos (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine..

Expertness :: Expertness (n.) Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning..

Suture :: Suture (n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic..

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

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..

Feller :: Feller (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Mariner :: Mariner (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.

Privateersman :: Privateersman (n.) An officer or seaman of a privateer.

Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another..

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