Usually means: Oversees deck crew and equipment.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word boatswain:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. boatswain: Merriam-Webster
  2. boatswain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boatswain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boatswain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boatswain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boatswain, boatswain: Wordnik
  7. boatswain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boatswain: Wiktionary
  9. boatswain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boatswain (bo's'n or bos'n or bosun): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boatswain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Boatswain, boatswain: Dictionary.com
  13. boatswain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Boatswain (disambiguation), Boatswain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Boatswain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. boatswain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. boatswain: Rhymezone
  18. Boatswain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. boatswain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Boatswain: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. boatswain: FreeDictionary.org
  22. boatswain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. boatswain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. boatswain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. boatswain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boatswain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOATSWAIN, BOATSWAIN, BOATSWAIN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boatswain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
▸ noun:  The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
▸ noun:  A kind of gull, the jaeger.
▸ noun:  The tropicbird.

Similar:
bosun, coxswain, boatswain's mate, swainship, carpenter, sailing-master, swain, boatmaster, naval officer, buffer, more...

Opposite:
landlubber, landsman, land lubber

Phrases:
boatswain bird, more...

Adjectives:
old, chief, good, big, young, former, portuguese, french, second, honest, gallant
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Similar:
bosun, coxswain, boatswain's mate, swainship, carpenter, sailing-master, swain, boatmaster, naval officer, buffer, more...

Opposite:
landlubber, landsman, land lubber

Phrases:
boatswain bird, more...

Adjectives:
old, chief, good, big, young, former, portuguese, french, second, honest, gallant



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