Noun

(en noun)

(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.

(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.

(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}

(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.

(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.

A large, high-quality pearl.

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Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].

Noun

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The practice, in ).

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* 2009 , Steve Hepburn, " Rugby: Oval ball gazing for 2011 World Cup", Otago Daily Times , 28 December 2009:

Jack has to cut out the seagulling and get in and do the dirty work.

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The practice of using a outboard.

I'm going take the boat out and do some seagulling .

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* 2011 , Martine Purssell, " News From Bermuda - 2011 R. I. S. R", The Gull , September 2011:

The Seagull and Heineken gods were with us — what a wonderful day weather wise — an ideal Seagulling race day — winds were light — and crossing the harbour to Sandys Boat Club at 7.15am the water was glassy.

* 2012 , " Camden Sutherland's 'Waikato Bullet Boat'", The Gull , March 2012:

It isn't often young people get involved in Seagulling , never mind build their own boat to do so.

The practice of working as a non-union casual stevedore.

* 1995 , Bryan Gould, Goodbye to All That , Macmillan (1995), ISBN 0-333-63800X, page 22:

Sometimes I went down to the Wellington wharves for what was called 'seagulling' , where I joined a crowd of other men just before 8 a.m., hoping to be given the nod for a day's work.

* 1997 , Phillip Knightley, A Hack's Progress , J. Cape (1997), ISBN 9780224043991, page 25:

After two months there was a lull on the waterfront, seagulling declined, and I had to seek another job. By this time my hands were hard and I actually looked like a labourer, so the New Zealand Posts and Telegraph department took me on as a linesman.

* 2001 , Archie Green, Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture , University of North Carolina Press (2001), ISBN 9780807826058, page 180:

As a young shipwright, I heard old timers warn me against seagulling or bypassing the union hall while seeking work.