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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The journey homewards was a sad one, for the spirits of the old sea king were entirely broken.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
He was like a young sea king among them all, she acknowledged; and he was a hero, it seemed, to these quaint northern folk that made his world.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
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
He organized a naval force, and made himself a sea king.
From King Alfred of England Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Thus pressed, the gleeman took his harp and sang an old Scandinavian song of the first sea king who invaded England, Ragnar Lodbrok.
From Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
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