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单词 cabin boy
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.
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