Definition of "sailorman" []

• A male sailor (noun)

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• "Everybody has got their eye on that money -- everybody except the sailorman, that is -- and afore he knows wot's 'appened, and who' as got it, he's looking for a ship agin."
• "-- one of Tod's -- wound loosely about it; a man really, strong and tough, with hard sinews and capable thighs, back, and wrists -- the kind of sailorman that could wear tarpaulins or broadcloth at his pleasure and never lose place in either station."
• ""I suppose you've received information, by bush-telegraph, that that third assistant understrapper and ex-sailorman at Tulagi is going to deport me as an undesirable immigrant.""