Converse of object

• kill: The casualties in this affair were 1 marine killed and 12 wounded, 1 seaman killed and 4 wounded.

• name: Along the way he rescued a castaway, a Scottish seaman named Alexander Selkirk, who joined his crew.

Possessives

• union: Recently, a man wrote to me, a member of the seamen's union.

Adjective modifier

• Elizabethan: General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert Born in Bodmin in 1785, a descendant of the Elizabethan seaman Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

• Norwegian: As a result of the attack a Norwegian seaman was wounded in the left arm.

• retired: Billy Bones, a retired seaman ( or worse ), comes to live at the Admiral Benbow inn.

Preposition: on

• board: Apart from the chief engineer, Jones was the only professional seaman on board.

Adjective modifier

• Indian: Indian seamen want to be useful in this fight against the forces of evil.

• Chinese: Most Chinese seamen lived to the north of the river.

Noun used with modifier

• apprentice: Captain Cook Memorial Museum This museum is housed in the building where James Cook lodged as an apprentice seaman.

• merchant: Merchant seamen faced the daily risk of U-boat attack.

• boy: We seventeen boy seamen are still waiting for the Admiralty medal for the Russian campaign.