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- Rescue - v. t. - To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
- Spur - n. - A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
- Holystone - n. - A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
- Afterguard - n. - The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails.
- Crew - n. - The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
- Landlubber - n. - One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.