sea dogs
Grizzled veteran sailors
Sea dogs are experienced sailors, especially old or grizzled ones who've spent years at sea.
The term evokes weathered faces, nautical expertise, and salty dispositions: The old sea dog had stories from every port in the Pacific.
Historically, sea dogs referred specifically to Elizabethan privateers who raided Spanish ships.
- seafarersThose who travel oceans
- ship's crewSailors aboard a vessel
- Spanish MainColonial Caribbean coast and sea
- high seasWaters beyond jurisdiction
- tarFile bundling utility
privateer · circumnavigation · salt · sail · mariner · buccaneer · old salt · naval warfare · Devonshire · Francis Drake · mate · jack-tar · gob · Elizabethan era · Northwest Passage · plunder · treasure map · scurvy
- seafaringship, sailors, ships, sail, boats
- Elizabethan NavyFrancis Drake, Walter Raleigh, privateers, Spanish Armada, galleons
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- Tudor explorationSir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Cabot, Golden Hind, Roanoke
- seafolkseafarers, seamen, sailors, mariners, boaters
- Privateeringletter of marque, prize money, marque, prize court, war prize
maritime experience
sea dogslandlubbers
Non-seafaring people, derisively
lubbers · greenhorns · landsmen · raw recruits · land dwellers