able-bodied seaman

noun

an ordinary seaman, esp one in the merchant navy, who has been trained in certain skills Alsoable seaman AbbreviationABa.b.

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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