sea king
Americannoun
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one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
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(initial capital letters) a twin-engine U.S. Navy helicopter for rescue work and antisubmarine warfare.
noun
Etymology
Origin of sea king
1575–85; translation of Old Norse sǣkonungr; cognate with Old English sǣcyning
Example Sentences
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But he knows what a sea king is--no king at all, so to speak.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
Meiris, which was the name of a fabulous sea king, and was afterwards used to denominate any mighty king or warrior.
From Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys by Farrer, James Anson
Captain Howel Davis, our next sea king, was a native of Milford, who, being taken224 prisoner by England, was appointed captain of the vessel of which he had been chief mate.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
The blood of her great ancestor, the sea king, Thomas Cavendish, who was second only to Sir Francis Drake, was astir within her.
From The Heart's Highway by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
"You haven't the air of a Norse sea king for nothing!"
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
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