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boatswains
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boatswains
n. (plural of boatswain English)
Usage examples of "boatswains".
Most of the men were hustled below by Ned and the other boatswains, while the rest were ordered to lie flat on the deck concealed below the bulwarks.
While the crew crowded the opening of the hatch above them Sir Francis and the boatswains went down, each carrying a lighted lantern, and knelt in the bottom of the hold to examihe the seals that the Dutch Governor of Trincomalee had placed on the entrance.
He started on the main deck and then, with his two boatswains, opened every hatch.