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cabin boy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy (in the sense of low-ranking young male employee, not always a minor in the juridical sense) who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship , especially running errands for the captain.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties. ▪ On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people, even a cabin boy , into paying for his sherry. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cabin \Cab"in\ (k[a^]b"[i^]n), n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] A cottage or small house; a hut. --Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. --E. Everett. A small room; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context dated English) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship. n. (context dated English) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : a young man acting as a servant on a ship
Usage examples of cabin boy.
It was seldom enough that even a cabin boy showed a decent interest in the Mate's prospective parenthood.
He'd lived almost his whole life in the air, a cabin boy at seven, a First Officer by fifteen, a Captain by twenty.
An orphan at the age of eleven, lan Gallagher ran away from the slums of Belfast and went to sea as a cabin boy.
Apparently Ciro had already accepted his new role as Trumpet's cabin boy: he was passing around a tray laden with sandwiches, coffee, and hype.
Amos had told him that at the rate he was learning, he'd be a first-class cabin boy in a year or two.