undermate

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ mate.

Noun

undermate (plural undermates)

1. A junior officer on board a ship.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.

Anagrams

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