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UK
/swˈeɪn/
]
[ US /ˈsweɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈsweɪn/ ]
NOUN
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a man who is the lover of a man or woman
if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked
When the law changed, Pet could finally married his long-time boyfriend Jim
How To Use swain In A Sentence
- Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
- Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
- Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
- His strong able-bodied cockswain did good service in cheerfully carrying his much-loved Commander, and they managed to return to the boat, and brought the two bereaved and sorrow-stricken ladies back to the “Pioneer.” A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
- A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
- The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
- Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
- Robert Meachem caught touchdown passes of 4 and 5 yards, and Jayson Swain hauled in another for 5 yards from Ainge. USATODAY.com - College Football - Air Force vs. Tennessee
- George McSwain retired from the United States Navy as a Lt Commander. McSwain, George P. Jr.
- In fact, the coxswain is the commander of the boat's crew. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
