(a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Peru's desert coast, irrigation had been effectively deployed for millennia to support intensive valley farming, coupled with a growing seagoing expertise that capitalised on the wealth of near-shore fishing resources.
(2) In addition, Duncan Hunter, the Republican legislator who backed the provision, suggests his primary concern is military readiness – ensuring that a sound fleet of private seagoing vessels is available in times of need.
(3) This was not altered by methazolamide, as expected, since there is no renal carbonic anhydrase in seagoing fish.
(4) Between May 18 and December 4, 1986, 79 seagoing containers and their contents of 22,051 used tires were inspected for adult mosquitoes as well as eggs and larvae.
(5) Besides attention to the individual adaptation to the atypical seagoing environment, simple behaviour patterns such as fixation on the horizon, avoiding of head movements and reduction of conflicting sensory cues can be very effective in reducing symptoms.
(6) The objects of investigations were routine seagoing-dietary and a trial ration elaborated in conformity with the standard requirements in energy and in basic nutrients.
(7) Reported industrial hygiene surveys aboard seagoing vessels are few, despite the presence of many potentially hazardous chemical and physical agents aboard ships.
(8) The maritime unmanned navigation through intelligence in networks (Munin) programme said: "Seagoing professions are increasingly perceived as unattractive these days."
Whaler
Definition:
(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(2) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(3) The whalers began blasting conservationists on one raft with a water cannon, knocking one man off his feet and leaving him with cuts and bruises, Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone.
(4) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(5) The court said there was no research justification for the high kill targets set for Japan's whalers.
(6) Sea Shepherd's founder, Paul Watson, accused the whalers of deliberately ploughing into the front of the boat.
(7) Japan's whalers usually leave for the southern ocean in December and return in April.
(8) Of course you think maybe you are going to risk your life, or there might be an accident, but your beliefs are your engine.” A decade after Greenpeace activist Mark Hardingham was left in intensive care after getting in the way of a Norwegian whaler, Mompo sailed into Bergen to campaign for the protection of Norwegian coral reefs.
(9) Two historic ships are being repaired in dry dock, and a 17th-century whaler is moored near three tempting fish cafes.
(10) Wadaura's whalers will contribute 26 whales to the total, but they would like to be able to hunt many more.
(11) A court in Tokyo has handed a suspended sentence to an environmental activist after finding him guilty of assaulting a Japanese whaler and obstructing the country's whaling fleet.
(12) Glenn Inwood, the institute's spokesman in New Zealand , said the whalers' footage of the incident disproved the activists' account.
(13) Through cutting kill quotas by blocking their lethal operations, we have reduced kill numbers dramatically, saving more than 4,000 whales and costing the whalers their profits.
(14) Japan catches almost 17,000 smaller cetaceans off its coast every year – a tradition that its whalers say stretches back centuries.
(15) Anti-whaling activists today accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking one of their boats as international tension over Japan's annual "scientific" culls in Antarctic waters grew.
(16) Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers were found in contempt of court for continuing their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica.
(17) The ninth US circuit court of appeals on Friday ordered a commissioner to determine how much Paul Watson and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society he founded owe Japanese whalers for lawyer fees, damage to their ships and for violating the court order to stop their dangerous protests.
(18) The fisheries agency blamed the poor catch on bad weather and "sabotage" by Sea Shepherd, which has confronted the whalers every year since 2005.
(19) The Japanese whalers are demanding $2m in addition to their attorney fees and damage and cost to their ships for warding off the protests.
(20) Afterwards, the whalers contacted Greenpeace to apologise.