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n. Plural form of midshipman.

""Why, they took him down to the cock-pit, as they called the midshipmen's berth on the lower deck, where we're going now," replied the Captain, leading the way down the companion and an interminable series of other ladders afterwards, as if they were descending to the kelson, the space getting all the narrower and darker as they went down."

midshipman    boatswain    purser    assistant-surgeon    armourer    co-pilot    bo's'n    supercargo    cadet    schoolchild