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- noun Plural form of
boatswain .
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Examples
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We saw several tropical birds, which the sailors call boatswains, in consequence of their having one long feather for a tail, which they term a marlin-spike — an iron instrument sharp at one end and knobbed at the other, used in splicing ropes, etc.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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The birds seen by our people were many brent-geese and ptarmigans, several golden plovers, one or two "boatswains," and abundance of snow-buntings.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822
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He could drink ten Navy boatswains under the table.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He could drink ten Navy boatswains under the table.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He could drink ten Navy boatswains under the table.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He turned to the boatswains mate, but had to spit into his hand before he could find his voice.
The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008
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The crash of so many ships dashing against one another took away the wits of the crews, and made it impossible to hear the boatswains, whose voices in both fleets rose high, as they gave directions to the rowers, or cheered them on in the excitement of the struggle.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Seventy-five pounds for the carpenters, seventy for the boatswains, a full eighty-four pounds for the engineers.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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In place of the usual cry the boatswains timed the rowers by a clink of stones, and silently the oars slid, feathering through the waves398; and just when the squadron of
Hellenica 2007
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Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like?
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