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buscarl Hist.|ˈbʌskɑːl|
A modernized form of the 11th c. butsecarl, a. ON. buzukarl, meaning ‘seaman, sailor, mariner’ [cf. buss n.1]. Found in the 17th c. legal antiquaries, and occasionally used by modern historical writers in this or the original form.
a1121O.E. Chron. an. 1066 (Laud MS.) Þa butsecarlas hine forsocan. [1664Spelman cites the forms buzecarl (Domesday), butsecarl, buthsecarl, buzsecarl, bucecarl. 1678 Blount has Buzcarles, Buscarles, Mariners or Seamen. 1730–6Bailey Butsecarl, Butescarl, a Boatswain or Mariner.] 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 176 Sturdy knights, active squires, weather-beaten butsecarles..assembled at Fécamp. 1866Kingsley Herew. i. 53 Out and away aboard a ship among the buscarles. Ibid. vi. 118 The broad hats of peaceful buscarles. |