sea letter
sea letter - English
Noun
sea letter (plural sea letters)
- The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for sea letter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)