Undermate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A junior officer on board a ship.

    "Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration."

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"Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration."

Etymology

From under- + mate.

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