单词 | boatswain of the yard |
释义 | > as lemmasBoatswain of the Yard a. Navy. Also with capital initial. More fully Boatswain of the Yard. (A title for) an officer in a dockyard in charge of its equipment and work crews. Now historical. ΚΠ a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts iii, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 326/2 Boatswain of the Yard. He commands the Labourers to their several Works, and sees the Provisions taken off Hoys, or return'd from the Ships, and carried safely, and orderly laid in the Storehouses within the Yard. 1770 London Mag. Aug. 429/2 The rigging house was with the greatest difficulty saved, as were also the houses of the surgeon and boatswain of the yard. 1833 Naut. Mag. Apr. 236/2 Mr. Charles Maggs, late Boatswain at Gibraltar, is appointed Boatswain of the Dockyard at the Cape of Good Hope. 1898 D. H. Parry Britain's Roll of Glory v. 52 He was for years boatswain at Portsmouth Dockyard, and a well-known figure. 2006 B. Lavery Churchill's Navy vii. 177/2 Traditional titles such as Master Rigger and Boatswain of the Yard were maintained alongside newer ones such as Admiralty Chemist and Senior Electrical Officer. < as lemmas |
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