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Seaman

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seaman
a man who serves as a sailor
Seaman 

or sailor, the first (junior) military rank in the navy, corresponding to the rank of soldier in the other branches of the armed forces. The rank was introduced in the USSR in July 1946 to replace the rank of Red Navy seaman; the rank of seaman first class, corresponding to private first class, also exists. The Russian Navy had the ranks of seaman second class and seaman first class. In the merchant fleet a sailor is one who serves on the ship’s crew.
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It is not the ship that takes her departure; the seaman takes his Departure by means of cross-bearings which fix the place of the first tiny pencil-cross on the white expanse of the track-chart, where the ship's position at noon shall be marked by just such another tiny pencil cross for every day of her passage.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
The warlock of Essendean, they say, had made a mirror in which men could read the future; it must have been of other stuff than burning coal; for in all the shapes and pictures that I sat and gazed at, there was never a ship, never a seaman with a hairy cap, never a big bludgeon for my silly head, or the least sign of all those tribulations that were ripe to fall on me.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Beddoes, whom the seaman had gone to visit and presumably to blackmail, had also been mentioned as living in Hampshire.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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