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Definition of Sailing master
1. Noun. The ship's officer in charge of navigation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sailing Master
Literary usage of Sailing master
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral, 1807-1877 by Charles Henry Davis (1899)
"CHAPTER IV SAILING-MASTER AND LIEUTENANT — THE ... Davis applied to the department
for the appointment of acting sailing-master to the Concord, sloop, and, ..."
2. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on by Euphemia Vale Blake (1874)
"The Sailing-master wants to stop at Port Foulk.—The Polaris passes Kane's
Winter-quarters.—An impassable Barrier of Ice.—Misleading Charts. ..."
3. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States by John Brannan (1823)
"UNITED STATES, FLOTILLA, NEW CASTLE, 1 have just received a letter from sailing-master
Shead, respecting the capture of the gun-boat No. ..."
4. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Sailing- master De La Rouch, of the Erie, and Midshipman Field, ... Sailing-master
Ramage, of the Guerrière, with 20 seamen, in command of a five- gun ..."
5. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Sailing-master Ramage, of the Guerriere, with 20 seamen, in command of a ...
Sailing-master Webster, of the flotilla, with 50 seamen of that corps, ..."
6. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Sailing-master Ramage, of the Guerrière, with 20 seamen, in command of a five-
... Sailing-master Webster, of the flotilla, with 50 seamen of that corps, ..."
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