cockswain
Example Sentences
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"Put your helm to starboard, your Honour," said the cockswain to me in a quiet voice, "and bring her head right round."
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
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
The captain nodded at the cockswain, and the bowman shoved off.
From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic
Note that the spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text.
From Stand By The Union by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
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
