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seagoing

[ see-goh-ing ]

adjective

  1. designed or fit for going going go to sea, as a vessel.
  2. going going go to sea; seafaring.


noun

  1. the activity of a person who travels by sea.

seagoing

/ ˈːˌɡəʊɪŋ /

adjective

  1. intended for or used at sea
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of seagoing1

First recorded in 1820–30; sea + going
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“Our wreck suggests a seagoing exchange was conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern Cyprus, Crete and other Greek lands.”

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Before it was found, there were no known wrecks of seagoing ships dating from the 11th to 14th Centuries in English waters.

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A seagoing freighter as long as two football fields slammed into a support pier and the bridge connecting Lower Tampa Bay to St. Petersburg.

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It was in truth more of a circus, with water tanks instead of rings, where captive marine mammals and other seagoing creatures were trained to do tricks for admission-paying human audiences.

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“All they would become is seagoing bellhops, chambermaids and dishwashers.”

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