sea card (plural sea cards)
- A mariner's card, or compass.
1723, Geoffrey Keating, The General History of Ireland, page 46:And is it to be denied, that several Islands and distant Parts of the World, which could never be come at by Land, were Peopled by the Posterity of Noah, long before the Sea-card or Compass was discover'd?
1879, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 187:These manuals contained definitions, treatises on the use of the sea card and compass, tables of declination and rules for applying it, rules for dead reckonings and lognitude, and instructions in the use of instruments.
1893, Catalogue of the Russian Section, page 450:The sea card is made of aluminium, has small needles 1.5 inches long, and forms a rigid and light system, only 15 gramms weight.
- A map of the ocean.
1620, William Bourne, A Regiment for the Sea, page 93:You have answered the question Philomathes directly: here might we make an end to the use of the sea Card, were it not that I remember you propounded unto me a question heretofore concerning the degrees of Latitude: whether it were not better for the Mariners use, if they were great then they be upon this Card;
1883, William Henry Davenport Adams, Shore and Sea; Or, Stories of Great Vikings and Sea-captains, page 231:On the Portuguese "sea-card" by which he steered his course, no other route was marked than that of the Malacca Straits, between which and Drake spread the Java Sea and the channel that separates Borneo from Sumatra.
1888, William Clark Russell, The Death Ship, page 18:The log fairly gives me my place on the sea card, and then there is the lead.
2010, Penelope Lively, City of the Mind:The sea card over which he pores in the tossing stinking cabin, amid the groan of timbers cut in Hampshire, to the flicker of a lantern made in Bow, all suspended here at God knows where.
- An ID card that identifies someone as eligible to work as crew aboard ship.
1997, Michigan History Magazine - Volume 81, page 37:Goodrich, on of eleven crew members who became clergy members, spoke about the sea cards the students carried , the South American blueprints he keeps in his home.
2005, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1051:This qualifies the holder of the sea card as an ordinary seaman .
- An ID card issued by a cruise ship line to passengers, often tied to a credit card, which passengers use to board the ship after excursions, to enter their rooms, and usually to pay for items while on the ship.
2011, Sylvia A. Witmore, Madness at Midnight, page 62:They stopped the first waiter and placed their order for the tropical concoction of the day using their Sailing/Sea card for payment.
2018, Carol Dean Jones, Sea Bound: A Quilting Cozy, page 117:At the end of the meal, Charles handed the waiter his Sea Card. They each had a card issued by the cruise line that provided identification, entry to their staterooms, and acted as a credit card everywhere that payment was required on the ship.
2024, Roy D Perkins, The Feline Umbrella: Oliver, Son of Beckett:At the end of the cruise, all purchases on the sea card are automatically transferred to that same credit card.
