Coxswain

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  • noun. A person who usually steers a ship's boat and has charge of its crew.
  • noun. A person in a racing shell who usually directs the rest of the crew.
  • intransitive & transitive verb. To act as coxswain or serve as coxswain for.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See cockswain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See cockswain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew.
  • noun. In a rowing crew, the member who steers the shell and coordinates the power and rhythm of the rowers.
  • noun. The second or third mate of a vessel, in charge of the master's barge.
  • noun. A rank or position.
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  • noun. the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    helmsman  steerer  steersman  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    21-gun  boatswain  davits  echone  fairie  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Gyropilot  automatic pilot  boatheader  boatsteerer  cicerone  
    variant
    cockswain  
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