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Definition of Messmates
1. messmate [n] - See also: messmate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Messmates
Literary usage of Messmates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account of by Albert Hastings Markham, Sherard Osborn (1874)
"watched the dexterous manner in which some of my messmates would perform the
apparently impossible feat of eating eggs with a large knife. ..."
2. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"messmates HE gave us all a good-bye cheerily JOHN GRAY At the first dawn of day;
We dropped him down the side full drearily When the light died away. ..."
3. Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"Account of my messmates, and other Matters. L HAD continued some months in this
course of life, and was frequently reduced to very great shifts; ..."
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