cockswain

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I jumped up, and running out of the tent, saw the cockswain standing like a nautical statue, motionless, gazing upwards, and with a stick grasped firmly in his hand.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.

A working boat of two or four oars, with the coach for a cockswain, is used for this purpose.

From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various

When we got to the edge of the surf the cockswain hailed them, and after singing out who I was, he and his men threw me into the water.

From My Friend The Murderer by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The cockswain, working like a telegraph with his swinging oar, generally contrived to pick off these skirmishers.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.

Keep your weather eye up, your Honour," exclaimed the cockswain from his commanding point to P——, who had not seen the advancing ducks; "keep your weather eye up.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.