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bosun

[ UK /bˈə‍ʊsən/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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