or seaman, subs. phr. (old).—A beggar shamming sailor; a TURNPIKE SAILOR (q.v.).
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1869), p. 48. These FRESHWATER MARINERS, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde … counterfet great losses on the sea.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. FRESHWATER SEAMEN, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men.
