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UK
/bˈəʊsən/
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NOUN
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
How To Use bosun In A Sentence
- The bosun's locker was full of oakum, rope, paint and varnish. GOTHIC PURSUIT
- Good... The next time I catch you smoking during refuelling I will tell the bosun. LET NOT THE DEEP
- A bosun is a person who gives -- who blows a whistle to give orders to the other sailors. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution
- Alternatively, I also have a thing about random whippings such as might be done by a bosuns mate with a rope's end on board ship, as the men were holystoning the decks.
- He showed Sharpe the galley beneath the forecastle, introduced him to masters-at-arms, cooks, Bosuns, Gunner's Mates, the carpenter, then offered to take Sharpe up the mainmast. Sharpe's Trafalgar
- It has two speedboats slung over the back, many windsurfers, two jet skis, 12 cabins, a crew of eight (including a bosun) and the usual range of bar stools coated in whale foreskin.
- It was the mutinous bosun, calling himself the captain, who abandoned the three of them and the real captain on the ship.
- Among the lots was a bosun's whistle given to the widow of a passenger to enable her to communicate after she was struck dumb from grief at losing her husband.
- By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
- Wegener watched the bosun fairly throw them into the Zodiac. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER