WordNet
Usage examples of "bos'n".
Forward of that but outside the ward room were the even smaller cabins, boxes, really, with bulkheads made of canvas stretched over frames made of battens, of the purser, gunner, carpenter, bos'n, and captain's clerk.
Weight, weight, weight - and water, provisions, men and their chests, stores for the gunner, carpenter and bos'n, let alone guns, powder, shot.
The bos'n and his mates were busy sewing the dead men into hammocks ready for funerals at daybreak, with the gunner cursing that it was going to be a waste of roundshot until Ramage pointed out that there was plenty in the schooners, and it was more appropriate that Frenchmen should be buried at sea with French roundshot sewn into the foot of their hammocks.
No, I only had time to have a quick stroll through the ship with the purser, gunner, bos'n, carpenter and cooper.
The Master, the bos'n, purser, gunner, at least two of the lieutenants .
He was watching while the carpenter and bos'n worked on an enormous block of unusual shape.
With a few Marines acting as sentries, the bos'n could have taken a party on shore for a wooding expedition: the cook's eternal complaint was that he was short of firewood for the coppers and soon would not be able to produce hot food.
My compliments to the bos'n, and ask him to be kind enough to lend you his cane for a few minutes.