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Sea dog   /si dɔg/   Listen
noun
Sea dog  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The dogfish.
(b)
The common seal.
2.
An old sailor; a salt. (Colloq.)





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"Sea dog" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Hurrah for the old sea dog! That's the kind of mariner we have, Mademoiselle Corinne; that's the way we rule the waves! Hurrah for brave old Killick! We'll make as little of getting into Quebec as he did of ...
— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green
... the hedgerows the early wild flowers in profusion. But we learned, on landing, that the recent gales had strewn the shores of England with wrecks, with great loss of life. It had been one of those terrible winters which have helped make the British sailor the sea dog he is. ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James
... an old sea dog who had sailed oft and again with the skipper, and who had lanced more whales than any other half dozen men aboard. Being in old Tom's watch I grew soon familiar with him; and from the beginning I saw that the old seaman ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster


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