bosun
See also: bo'sun
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Contraction of boatswain.
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bosun (plural bosuns)
- Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”)
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- They tied us up—the fellow who handled me could tie like a bosun—and there we lay with our toes up, beneath a tree, while a great brute stood guard over us with a club in his hand.
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boatswain — see boatswain
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bosun