FIRST MATE


Meaning of FIRST MATE in English

noun

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Here then the first mate and the captain are diametrically opposed.

It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate .

She must be mated again, and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another.

Starbuck and Ahab almost communicate with each other as the first mate pleads with Ahab to repudiate this vengeful mission.

The captain read the funeral service and the first mate raised the plank and tipped the small bundle into the water.

This, his first mate , is known as the primary female.

Three times he watched his first mate get blown to bits.

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