marinership

English

Etymology

mariner +‎ -ship

Noun

marinership (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Arts or skills of a mariner; seamanship.
   • June 23, 1598, Anthony Ashley, letter to Sec. Cecil

     I am ashamed to think what small advantage comes to you by that foolish matter of Meverell; not so much for the loss, as for the unadvised carriage thereof; a few silly fools overcame us for want of marinership, and could afterwards sport at their pleasure, vaunting how cheap they passed the storm and compassed their purposes […]