sea-dogs
Grizzled veteran mariners
Sea-dogs are experienced sailors, especially old ones weathered by years at sea.
The term evokes grizzled mariners with salt-stiffened beards and sun-creased faces: The sea-dogs at the harbor told tales of storms and shipwrecks.
In Elizabethan England, sea-dogs were English privateers who raided Spanish ships—figures like Drake and Hawkins.
Streaked with gray
- weatheredEroded by exposure
- battle-scarredDamaged by fighting
- hardenedMade tough or unfeeling
- experiencedHaving practical knowledge gained
old-timers · shellbacks · survivors · seasoned · stalwarts · legends · venerable · leathery
Caribbean sea raiders
- corsairsSeafaring plunderers
- privateersLicensed wartime ship raiders
- plunderGoods seized violently
- swashbucklersFlamboyant adventurous swordsmen
booty · treasure · cutlasses · Blackbeard · Jolly Roger · skull · crossbones · mutiny
grizzled
Streaked with gray
- weatheredEroded by exposure
- battle-scarredDamaged by fighting
- hardenedMade tough or unfeeling
experienced · old-timers · shellbacks · survivors · seasoned · stalwarts · legends · venerable · leathery · scarred
buccaneers
Caribbean sea raiders
- corsairsSeafaring plunderers
- privateersLicensed wartime ship raiders
- plunderGoods seized violently
swashbucklers · booty · treasure · cutlasses · Blackbeard · Jolly Roger · skull · crossbones · mutiny · Caribbean
deckhand
Ship's manual laborer
- bosunShip's deck crew chief
- helmsmanOne who navigates vessels
- quartermasterOfficer managing military supplies
navigator · boatswain · coxswain · shipmate · cabin-boy · mariner · crewman · tar · jack-tar · matelot
voyage
Journey by sea
deck · helm · rudder · anchor · compass · navigation · rigging · sails · port · starboard
sea-dogslandlubbers
Non-seafaring people, derisively
greenhorns · lubbers · raw recruits · cabin boys · first-timers
sea-dogslandlubbers
Non-seafaring people, derisively
landsmen · inlanders · mountain men · plainsmen · desert rats