释义 |
ˈcabin boy [f. cabin n. 5 + boy.] A boy who waits on the officers and passengers on board.
1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xiii. 67, I was sent to Oxford, scholar of a college, and my elder brother a cabbin boy to the West-Indies. 1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 467 Every soul on board perished, except the cabbin-boy. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 303 Sir Christopher Mings..entered the service as a cabin boy..His cabin boy was Sir John Narborough, and the cabin boy of Sir John Narborough was Sir Cloudesley Shovel. |