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n. Variant of boatswain.

n. A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship.

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

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

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

"Her father was, as she always put it, "in the King's Navy," and he had been "bosun" to a ship's"

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

boatswain   

boatswain    bo's'n    boson   

boatswain    purser    sailmaker    pharmacist    machinist    welder    bo's'n    stout-limbed    caulker    metalworkers