cockswain

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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

The cockswain kept his eye on the rock, and, every now and then, hinted to me the course I should steer; for I had taken the tiller.

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

They pulled with all their might; and Lanark, the cockswain, steered her for the siamang.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.

But a Yankee sailor is a hard man to kill—in three weeks cockswain James was at his post again.

From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James

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.