coxswains

Oh, the tales of toe shoes and tumbling, of minuets, coxswains, and dressage!

The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege!"

Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating 2011

Oh, the tales of toe shoes and tumbling, of minuets, coxswains, and dressage!

The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

Out on the lake a group of scullers beat by, the coxswains chanting in harsh rhythm with the slender white wake stirred by the oars.

Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

Boat coxswains would walk by someone in a dry suit and ask, 'Are you on a crew?'

Barbara L. Patton: Flight 1549 Responder Honored With Military Leadership Award 2009

Throw in the rise of Hipsters -- many of whom were geeks or "misunderstood" in high school -- as the new coxswains of culture, and you've got yourself an upside down world that would make any member of Lambda Lambda Lambda proud (or disgusted, depending on their nerd pride).

David Weiner: Star Trek Cologne: The Next Generation of Nerdom 2009

China has gone the other way, with a nationwide call for coxswains, those tiny terrors who bark orders at rowers and steer the crew shell.

Calendar 2006

The guys next door, girls down the hall, other coxswains, Arianne, and others ...

cacatherine Diary Entry cacatherine 2008

The number of coxswains -- one male, one female -- is limited to two per country.

In Olympic Rowing, the Race to Fill 2008

China has gone the other way, with a nationwide call for coxswains, those tiny terrors who bark orders at rowers and steer the crew shell.

Calendar 2006