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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class II. Words Relating to Space
Section IV. Motion
1. Motion in General

269. Mariner.

   NOUN:MARINER, sailor, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, sea dog [colloq.], hand, water dog [colloq.], shellback [slang]; Ancient Mariner, Flying Dutchman; dock walloper [slang]; Jack, Jack Tar or jack-tar, tar, jacky (pl. jackies) [landsman’s term], shipman [obs. or poet.], gob [slang, U. S.]; salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war’s man, bluejacket, galiongee or galionji, marine, devil-dog [slang, U. S.], jolly [slang]; midshipman, middy [colloq.]; lascar, mangee or manjhi [Hind.], matelot [F.], captain, commander, master mariner, skipper; mate; boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, long-shoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oars-man; rower; boatswain.
  STEERSMAN, coxswain or cockswain, cox [colloq.], helmsman, wheelman, pilot, patron [F.]; crew.
   QUOTATION:The keen Eye-puckered, hard-case seamen, silent, lean.—Masefield