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sailors (root: sailor)

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Noun
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sail=or

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sailors has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sailorsn. 
     One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.  [1913 Webster]
Sailor's choice. (Zoöl.) (a) An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; -- called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream. (b) A species of grunt (Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish.
Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sailors, n.
1 a seaman or mariner, esp. one below the rank of officer.
2 a person considered as liable or not liable to seasickness (a good sailor).

Idiom
sailor hat
1 a straw hat with a straight narrow brim and flat top.
2 a hat with a turned-up brim in imitation of a sailor's, worn by women and children.
Derivative
sailoring n. sailorless adj. sailorly adj.
Etymology
var. of SAILER

THESAURUS

sailors

AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, bluejacket, boatman, buccaneer, camper, captain, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, deep-sea man, excursionist, explorer, fair-weather sailor, fare, fisherman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, gob, goer, hajji, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, mountaineer, navigator, old salt, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, pirate, privateer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shellback, shipman, sightseer, skipper, straphanger, swab, swabbie, tar, tarpaulin, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, viator, viking, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, water dog, wayfarer, whaler, windjammer, windsailor, world-traveler, yachtsman

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Mariner

N sailor, mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, dock walloper, tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A, B, man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy, skipper, shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman, bargee, gondolier, oar, oarsman, rower, boatswain, cockswain, coxswain, steersman, pilot, crew, aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus, aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew, astronaut, cosmonaut, parachutist, paratrooper.

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breastplate

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Noun
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breast=plate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun breastplate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

breastplaten. 
  •  A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.  [1913 Webster]
    "Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A strap that runs across a horse's breast.  Ash.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

breastplate, n. a piece of armour covering the breast.

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Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

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