| 单词 | boatswain's mate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboatswain's mate boatswain's mate n. a boatswain's deputy or assistant; cf. bosun's mate n. at bosun n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > boatswain > boatswain's-mate boatswain's mate1600 bosun's mate1649 buffer1864 1600 C. Leigh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 196 Whereupon wee requested M. Ralph Hill and the Boatswaines mate to go on shore to them. 1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 170 A Boatswains mate 1l. 15s. 1790 Calcutta Chron. 28 Jan. The petty officers who escaped from the wreck..were..the gunner..the boatswain..the carpenter, and William Marnard, the boatswain's mate. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. i. 23 Among our killed, was a Dutch boatswain's mate. 1905 J. Masefield Sea Life Nelson's Time vi. 167 The boatswain's mate at once produced a hard knotted cord, called a starter, with which he beat the man unmercifully about the head and shoulders. 1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six i. 28 You were a navy chief boatswain's mate, I believe, with the Navy Cross. < as lemmas |
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