able-bodied seaman


noun
  1. an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills: Also: able seaman Abbreviation: AB, a.b.

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How to use able-bodied seaman in a sentence

  • The able-bodied seaman goes to sea all his life, but he never gets any nearer navigating the ship—and he a white man.

    With Edged Tools | Henry Seton Merriman
  • He received consignments of food; short rations they would be, he judged, for an able-bodied seaman.

    The Stolen Singer | Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
  • 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.

    With Wolfe in Canada | G. A. Henty
  • 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.

    The Secret Service Submarine | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull