Noun
The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe woodcutter is far better for skill than he is for brute strength. It is by skill that the sea captain holds his rapid ship on its course, though torn by winds, over the wine-blue water. By skill charioteer outpasses charioteer. Homer
During this time, he began socializing with Mary Oakes Davis—the widow of a sea captain. Source: Internet
Europeans (from 1500) Map of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands (1502) European contact began in 1500, when the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island after his ship separated from a fleet going to India. Source: Internet
As with his other writings, the Travels was published under a pseudonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and later a sea captain. Source: Internet
The idea of a shark attack sounded preposterous to everyone, including retired sea captain Thomas Cottrell. Source: Internet
At times, "Great House" creaks under the weight, as in this unfortunate bit about Mr. Weisz's son and daughter: "Just as the children of a sea captain instinctively understand the sea, Yoav and Leah had a natural sense for furniture." Source: Internet