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n. A warrant officer or petty officer in charge of a ship's rigging, anchors, cables, and deck crew.

n. The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

n. The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.

n. A kind of gull, the jaeger.

n. The tropicbird.

n. An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

n.

n. The jager gull.

n. The tropic bird.

n. A subordinate officer of a ship, who has charge of the rigging, anchors, cables, and cordage.

n. A jäger or skua; any bird of the genus Lestris or Stercorarius.

n. A name of birds of the genus Phaëthon. See tropic-bird.

n. a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen

"Having completed my inspection of the decks, and satisfied myself that everything was all right, I called the boatswain aft to take temporary charge, and then entered the drawing-room, intending to pass through it to the door of Mrs Vansittart's cabin, to make my report."

jack    gob    mariner    Jack tar    tar    seaman    seafarer    sea dog    old salt   

boatswain's mate   

boatswain's chair    boatswain's pipe    bosun    boatswain-bird    bo's'n   

purser    bo's'n    bosun    sailmaker    midshipmen    midshipman    quartermaster    gunner    carpenter    supercargo