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Definition of boatswain in English: boatswainnoun ˈbəʊs(ə)nˈboʊs(ə)n A ship's officer in charge of equipment and the crew. Example sentencesExamples - Accordingly, arming an employee with a pickax and sending him into the vessel in a bosun's seat would be inadvisable.
- At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
- Shannon, even though promised an ‘A’ school, has decided to remain in deck and become a boatswain's mate.
- Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
- Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
- He served in the merchant marines as a boatswain and a machinist's mate when ships were going to places of interest.
- Aviation boatswain's mates wash down the flight deck aboard PCU Ronald Reagan following a test of damage control systems.
- Silent Pete, the boatswain, as I later found out, tossed me a mop.
- These were Lt. Jim Galvin and a boatswain's mate named Stevens.
- A boatswain's mate on a ship's forecastle might not be paying attention to the color of the anchor chain paying out of the locker, or turn the friction brake in the wrong direction, with disastrous results.
- The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
- Perhaps the boatswain missed the turn-off for Bangkok from the Mekong?
- The boatswain tells them that the ship is in fine condition.
- Take for instance, the boatswain's mate who needs to put that new coat of paint on the bulkhead.
- I am a retired seaman and spent many a year sailing the world as a ship's boatswain.
- The bo'sun took the hint and yelled, ‘Ahoy the boat!’
- Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
- He's a boatswain's mate by trade but said life on the LCAC's small deck beats the duties of bigger vessels.
- It was the mutinous bosun, calling himself the captain, who abandoned the three of them and the real captain on the ship.
- ‘They'll think you're a nutter,’ cut in Sean, the bosun, who put away seven pints in each port.
Origin Late Old English bātswegen (see boat, swain). cox from mid 19th century: The cox or coxswain (Middle English) is the person who steers a racing boat or similar craft. The cox part is from the old word cock (Late Middle English) ‘small boat’, which is not related to the bird but to Latin caudex or codex ‘block of wood’. The second half of the word, swain (Old English), now means ‘a country youth or peasant’ but was originally ‘a young man attending a knight’ and ‘a male servant or attendant’. It is also the second half of boatswain (Late Middle English) (often abbreviated to bo'sun), a ship's officer in charge of equipment and the crew.
Definition of boatswain in US English: boatswain(also bosun, bo'sun) nounˈboʊs(ə)nˈbōs(ə)n A ship's officer in charge of equipment and the crew. Example sentencesExamples - Silent Pete, the boatswain, as I later found out, tossed me a mop.
- I am a retired seaman and spent many a year sailing the world as a ship's boatswain.
- The boatswain tells them that the ship is in fine condition.
- Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
- Take for instance, the boatswain's mate who needs to put that new coat of paint on the bulkhead.
- It was the mutinous bosun, calling himself the captain, who abandoned the three of them and the real captain on the ship.
- The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
- A boatswain's mate on a ship's forecastle might not be paying attention to the color of the anchor chain paying out of the locker, or turn the friction brake in the wrong direction, with disastrous results.
- ‘They'll think you're a nutter,’ cut in Sean, the bosun, who put away seven pints in each port.
- He's a boatswain's mate by trade but said life on the LCAC's small deck beats the duties of bigger vessels.
- Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
- He served in the merchant marines as a boatswain and a machinist's mate when ships were going to places of interest.
- Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
- Aviation boatswain's mates wash down the flight deck aboard PCU Ronald Reagan following a test of damage control systems.
- Accordingly, arming an employee with a pickax and sending him into the vessel in a bosun's seat would be inadvisable.
- At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
- The bo'sun took the hint and yelled, ‘Ahoy the boat!’
- These were Lt. Jim Galvin and a boatswain's mate named Stevens.
- Perhaps the boatswain missed the turn-off for Bangkok from the Mekong?
- Shannon, even though promised an ‘A’ school, has decided to remain in deck and become a boatswain's mate.
Origin Late Old English bātswegen (see boat, swain). |