Henry Mainwaring, The Sea-man's Dictionary (1644)

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Date
16440
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A BRIEF ABSTRACT, Exposition and demonstration of all Parts and things belonging to a SHIPPE and the Practique of Navigation.
Book title
THE Sea-mans Dictionary: OR, AN EXPOSITION And Demonstration of all the Parts and Things belonging to a SHIPPE: Together with an Explanation of all the Termes and Phrases used in the Practique of NAVIGATION.
Edition
1st
Publication place
London
Printer
G. M.
Publisher
John Bellamy
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP, from British Library Thomason Collection MS E. 9 (11)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
navigation and the sea
Summary
The first printed edition, twenty years later than the British Library Sloane manuscript (ca. 1620-23), with word-entries omitting from its list as well as added to it.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 43
Word-entry
type: gloss
number: 581
Wing
M551