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marinership en · NOUN

Etymology

From mariner + -ship.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) Arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
    • June 23, 1598, Anthony Ashley, letter to Sec. Cecil I am ashamed to think what small advantage comes to you by that foolish matter of Meverell; not so much for the loss, as for the unadvised carriage thereof; a few silly fools overcame us for want of marinership, and could afterwards sport at their pleasure, vaunting how cheap they passed the storm and compassed their purposes […]