sea dog

The child of Finnish sea-folk who had drifted to Brest and died there, she had been adopted by an old Breton sea-dog and his wife.

The old man looks like a weather-beaten sea-dog in a south-wester—his Ladaki cap with its spreading flaps.

No elderly sea-dog will ever acknowledge to failing vision when he gazes at the level horizon he knows so well.

Need I describe how our noble old nautical sea-dog was received by the Mackerel Brigade?

The man who spoke was a rough, grizzled sea-dog, clad in an old jersey and tarpaulins.