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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cabin boy
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.
▪ PipThe Negro cabin boy who loses his mind when abandoned temporarily in the sea.
▪ While making Slave Ship in 1937, he had to slap cabin boy Mickey Rooney around.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cabin boy

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.]

  1. A cottage or small house; a hut.
    --Swift.

    A hunting cabin in the west.
    --E. Everett.

  2. A small room; an inclosed place.

    So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive.
    --Spenser.

  3. A room in ship for officers or passengers.

    Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

Wiktionary
cabin boy

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 ship.

WordNet
cabin boy

n : a young man acting as a servant on a ship

Wikipedia
Cabin boy

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.

Cabin boy (disambiguation)

A cabin boy is a servant on a ship.

Cabin Boy may also refer to:

  • "Cabin Boy" (short story), a 1951 science fiction story by Damon Knight
  • "Cabin Boy" (song), a 1984 song by Tom Robinson on the album Hope and Glory
  • Cabin Boy, a 1994 fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick

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.