Definition of "sea captain" [sea• cap•tain]

• The captain of a ship, especially a merchant ship. (noun)

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• "Grant, being our leader, was called “General Grant,” and Bill was “Captain Semen” because he looks like a sea captain with a thick brown beard and his last name, Nemes, when spelled backward is, conveniently, “semen.”"
• "In 1697, a Dutch sea captain chanced upon a black swan in Australia, at which point the null hypothesis was proven true and the white swan theory had to be discarded."
• "Fabbio perched at the very prow of the boat, standing tall and pointing left, like a sea captain or a hunting dog, as if pointing was very important."