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able-bodied seaman
noun
- an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills Alsoable seaman AbbreviationABa.b.
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The able-bodied seaman goes to sea all his life, but he never gets any nearer navigating the ship—and he a white man.
He received consignments of food; short rations they would be, he judged, for an able-bodied seaman.
His experience in the fishing boats was useful to him now, and he was soon able to do his work as an able-bodied seaman.
As a result I got my rate as able-bodied seaman when I was fifteen.
But a little, able-bodied seaman, six weeks ago at Kiel, gave him a thrashing in a Bierhalle till he wept.
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