cockswain
Example Sentences
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Accordingly, the boats were got out, and part of the cargo at once transferred to them, and conveyed to the shore, I acting as cockswain on the occasion.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 by William Chambers
Christy would not wait to hear any more, but ordered the cockswain to go ahead again.
From Fighting for the Right by A. B. Shute
The captain nodded at the cockswain, and the bowman shoved off.
From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic
Vincent acted as cockswain of the boat, while the Russian, as most of the officers and men 315 insisted upon calling him, was seated in the stern sheets with the third lieutenant.
From Stand By The Union by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
And we will back the cockswain to any amount, though he was then only fifteen, and probably did not weigh more than five stone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
