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Junk :: "Junk (n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships..

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

Navigation :: Navigation (n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship..

Seam :: Seam (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.

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

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..

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

Seamster :: Seamster (n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew..

Needlework :: Needlework (n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress..

Seam :: Seam (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

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

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

Pharos :: Pharos (n.) A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen..

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..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..

Inseamed :: Inseamed (imp. & p. p.) of Insea.

Semster :: Semster (n.) A seamster.

Vamp :: Vamp (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper..

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

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