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Hence, to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. Carlyle.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight.

ause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. Raymond.

To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.

material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. -- Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line. (b) (Arch.) A hor…

Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement. Seam and gusset and band. Hood.

A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten.

s of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.

To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [Obs.] Dryden.

A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter.

The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones. Boyle.

king gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. Shak.