deepwaterman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who works in deep waters at sea.
Example Sentences
- "Aboard a real shipshape and Bristol fashion deepwaterman of the old school, if there be any such left today, everything is done according to the custom of the sea."
- "It is not a job to crave for, that scraping out of the bilges of a deepwaterman."
- "A typical example of the classic small deepwaterman from a small Westcountry port, the Geisha closes this section."
- "'Hell ships' were commonest among deepwatermen on long voyages round the Horn, or among the whalers when the best class of foremast hands were not to be had."
- "... real seamen, fishermen and deepwatermen before the war, all from Brittany, Brest, La Pallice, Saint-Malo and Saint-Nazaire."
- "Within a few remaining buildings on Johnny Cake Hill the traditions of the sea are kept alive — where in the background hovers the immortal drama of those deepwatermen whose lives were spent at sea, enamored of its somber might, its temptations and mystery."