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English : from a Norman personal name, Filimor, composed of the Germanic elements filu ‘very’ + mÄri, mÄ“ri ‘famous’.The home of the main English branch of the Fillmore family in Tudor times was East Sutton, Kent, but the immigrant John Fillmore (1678–c.1710) was a mariner who came from Manchester, England, to Ipswich,MA, in about 1700. His son, also called John Fillmore (1702–77), had seven sons and three daughters. One of these sons, Nathaniel, was the father of President Millard Fillmore (1800–74).
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English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a boatbuilder or a mariner, from Middle English ship ‘ship’.
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English : origin uncertain; probably from an unidentified English place name formed with the Old Norse element by ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.Greenfield Larrabee was a mariner who arrived in New Haven, CT, from England in 1647.
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Seaman; Renowned Mariner
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English : occupational name for a shepherd, Middle English schepman (literally ‘sheep man’).English : occupational name for a mariner, or occasionally perhaps for a boatbuilder, Middle English schipman (literally ‘ship man’).
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English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
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English (of Norman origin) and German : occupational name for a sailor (see Mariner), from Anglo-Norman French mariner, Middle High German marnære ‘seaman’.
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English : habitational name from Tilton in Leicestershire, named with the Old English personal name Tila + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.William Tilton came to Lynn, MA, in or before 1637. Many of his descendants were master mariners, living on Martha’s Vineyard. James Tilton of DE (1745–1822) was a physician who became U.S. surgeon general.
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English : variant spelling of Mariner 1.
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English : occupational name for a sailor, Anglo-Norman French mariner (Old French marinier, marnier, merinier). Compare Marin 2.Catalan : occupational name for a sailor, Catalan mariner (Latin marinarius).
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Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch.Irish (Anglo-Norman) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Linseach, itself a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Norman French de Lench, the version found in old records. This seems to be a local name, but its origin is unknown. One family of bearers of this name was of Norman origin, but became one of the most important tribes of Galway.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside, Old English hlinc, or perhaps a habitational name from Lynch in Dorset or Somerset or Linch in Sussex, all named with this word.This name was brought independently from Ireland to North America by many bearers. Jonack Lynch emigrated from Ireland to SC shortly after the first settlement of that colony in 1670. His grandson Thomas Lynch, born in 1727 in Berkeley Co., SC, was a member of both Continental Congresses, and his great-grandson, also called Thomas Lynch, born 1749 in Winyaw, SC, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
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One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.
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A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
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One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
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Seamanship.
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Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.
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A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
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One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
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A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
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One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
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A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
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One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.
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A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
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Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.
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Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
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A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
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The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.