Similar words: oats, waistcoat, boat, u-boat, what's what, tugboat, showboat, wain. Meaning: ['bəʊsn] 
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. 
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1 Alonso: good boatswain, have care, where’s the master?
2 Boatswain: here, master, what cheer?
3 Boatswain: do you not hear him?
4 We thought the boatswain a brute, and, practically, told him so.
5 The boatswain, Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard, and, though he kept his old title, he served in a way as mate.
6 The head of Job Anderson , the boatswain, appeared at the middle loophole.
7 The Boatswain was kill'd upon the Spot, the next Man was Shot into the Body, and fell just by him, tho' he did not die 'till an Hour or two after; and the third run for it.
8 Gray, following close behind me, had cut down the big boatswain ere he had time to recover from his lost blow.
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