MARINER
ADJECTIVES
► TARPAULIN pert to a mariner or sailor; sea-bred → 1647
NOUNS – PERSON
► MARINAL a mariner, a sailor → a1300-1400 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► MARINALLER ► MARYNELLER a mariner → 1470 obs.
► MARINE a sailor, a mariner → c1575 obs.
► SAILOR-MAN in uneducated and jocular use: a sailor, a seaman, a mariner → 1790
► TARPAULIN a nickname for a mariner or sailor, esp. a common sailor → 1647 arch.
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