noun. A warrant officer or petty officer in charge of a ship's rigging, anchors, cables, and deck crew.

noun. A subordinate officer of a ship, who has charge of the rigging, anchors, cables, and cordage.

noun. A jäger or skua; any bird of the genus Lestris or Stercorarius.

noun. A name of birds of the genus Phaëthon. See tropic-bird.

noun. An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

noun. undefined

noun. The jager gull.

noun. The tropic bird.

noun. an assistant of the boatswain.

noun. The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

noun. The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.

noun. A kind of gull, the jaeger.

noun. The tropicbird.

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

"Having completed my inspection of the decks, and satisfied myself that everything was all right, I called the boatswain aft to take temporary charge, and then entered the drawing-room, intending to pass through it to the door of Mrs Vansittart's cabin, to make my report."

boatswain's mate  

bo's'n  boatswain's chair  boatswain's pipe  boatswain-bird  bosun  

Jack tar  gob  jack  mariner  old salt  

assistant-surgeon  bo's'n  bosun  bricklayer  carpenter  

Big Brother  OD  auditor  boss  captain