The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
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- First published
- 1867
- Pages
- 791Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 16 hours32 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Smyth’s dictionary follows the language of sailors into the small distinctions that matter aboard a ship. Its entries reach beyond rigging and navigation to commands, equipment, older usages and terms borrowed from military work.
It is an especially useful companion to naval fiction. Look up a word encountered at sea in a novel and follow neighbouring entries to see what else a sailor might have meant.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- maritime language
- historical dictionaries
- naval fiction companions
Things You May Not Know About The Sailor’s Word-Book
- The dictionary is arranged alphabetically.
- Its full title expressly includes obsolete terms and older voyagers’ language.
About this edition
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