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- noun Alternative spelling of
cabin boy .
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Examples
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I had seen the frightful treatment of the cabin-boy, and knew that I should very probably receive the same, if not worse.
Chapter 3 2010
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In the meantime the erstwhile cabin-boy had not moved.
Chapter 3 2010
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This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject.
Chapter 9 2010
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Are you going to take up your duties as cabin-boy?
Chapter 3 2010
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When I turned around, a moment later, I saw the cabin-boy staggering to his feet.
Chapter 3 2010
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The cabin-boy — and he weighed one hundred and sixty-five at the very least — crumpled up.
Chapter 3 2010
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Well, he was cabin-boy twenty years ago on the Scottish Chiefs, and after she was cut off he was a slave there at Poonga-Poonga.
Chapter 18 2010
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It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.
Chapter 7 2010
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He inquired of the cook, the cabin-boy, the captain, concerning the food stores.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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Then the cook and cabin-boy broke out anchor, and, while one hove it up, the other hoisted the jib.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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