The Seafaring Dictionary

Terms, Idioms and Legends of the Past and Present

By: David S.T. Blackmore

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Paperback | 21 April 2009

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400 Pages

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25.4 x 17.78 x 2.08

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The specialized language of seafarers is a complex mixture of the strange and the familiar, incorporating words from a variety of English dialects and foreign languages, and peppered with coined phrases and slang words. With its many intricate nuances, "navalese" is vitally important to a profession in which technical concepts need to be communicated briefly and accurately.

This dictionary defines and discusses more than 9000 nautical terms, abbreviations, slang expressions, customs and events, including terms now grown obsolete. Tables add detail about wind and wave measurements, notations, signals, navigation rules, rank and ratings.

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"guides the reader through centuries of terms and idioms of the sea. Blackmore's dictionary should find a home on the reference shelves of libraries and in the hands of landlubber readers interested in the language of the sea. Recommended"-Choice; "easy-to-use and convenient...a useful work"-ARBA "the inquiring reader cannot fail to be impressed by the wide extent of the author's knowledge. The dictionary will be helpful to all readers who wish to inform themselves about the ways of sailors and the sea, and can be recommended to libraries with an interest in that important aspect of society"-Reference Reviews; "thumbs-up...for its overall treatment and accuracy"-The Bosun's Chronicle; "Blackmore's work is likely to become a standard reference for naval organization, practice, and idiom from the 1940s to the present day"-Nautical Research Journal; "a valuable contribution to the canon...by recognizing that sailors see the world differently to landlubbers, Blackmore has produced a work with much of interest to both"-The Naval Review.

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