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Boatswain

//ˈbəʊt.sweɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person aboard ship who is in charge of various maritime affairs.; The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
  2. 2
    a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen wordnet
  3. 3
    A person aboard ship who is in charge of various maritime affairs.; The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
  4. 4
    A kind of gull, the jaeger.
  5. 5
    The tropicbird.

Etymology

From Middle English botswain, botswein, bote-swayn, from late Old English bātsweġen, from bāt (“boat”) + sweġen (“swain”), the latter element a borrowing from Old Norse sveinn (“boy”); equivalent to boat + swain (“boy, servant”).

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