Crossword clues for master-at-arms
The Collaborative International Dictionary
master-at-arms \master-at-arms\ n. (Naut.) The senior petty officer of a ship, responsible for discipline aboard the ship.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK Navy English) A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship. 2 (context UK Army English) A commissioned officer responsible for overseeing all fitness training in subordinate units. 3 (context US Navy English) A petty officer responsible for law enforcement, antiterrorism, force protection, and expeditionary warfare. 4 An officer in a fraternal or similar organization charged with maintaining order.
WordNet
n. the senior petty officer; responsible for discipline aboard ship
[also: masters-at-arms (pl)]
Wikipedia
A master-at-arms (US: MA; UK: & Pakistan MAA) may be a naval rating, responsible for law enforcement, regulating duties, security and force protection; an army officer responsible for physical training; or a member of the crew of a merchant ship (usually a passenger vessel) responsible for security and law enforcement. In some navies, a "ship's corporal" is a position—not the rank—of a petty officer who assists the master-at-arms in his various duties.
Usage examples of "master-at-arms".
Joe Sparger glanced up as the Master-at-Arms tapped on the frame of his cabin door.
Step by step, the master-at-arms withdrew his fighters, making no overquick or clumsy move to spur the rasti into automatic attack.
Hoggett, the boatswain, and his two mates, Beedle, the unsmiling master-at-arms, Bunn, the ship's corporal, with the prisoner and Laidlaw, the surgeon, bringing up the rear.
It sartainly did not seem to be worth all the trouble, but howsomever it was taken aft by the master-at-arms, and laid on the capstern head.
Chief Master-at-Arms, execute the sentence," Alston said, her face like something carved from obsidian.
Churchill, the master-at-arms, stood by my hammock with a pistol in his hand, and I saw Thompson, holding a musket with the bayonet fixed, stationed by the arms chest which stood on the gratings of the main hatch.
By the time each boy had found a place on the deck and the Master-at-Arms had okayed the pad under his head, the glowtubes turned red and the loudspeaker brayed out.
Jack strode through it over the two bodies, calling very loud and clear for his bosun, swabbers and the master-at-arms.
This he had not learnt from listening to their conversation nor from reports brought by confidential hands like Bonden or Killick or the equivalent of the master-at-arms or the ship's corporal - he hated a tale-bearer - but from having spent most of his life afloat, some of it as a foremast-jack.
This he had not learnt from listening to their conversation nor from reports brought by confidential hands like Bonden or Killick or the equivalent of the master-at-arms or the ship's corporal - he hated a tale-bearer - but from having spent most of his life afloat, some of It as a foremast-jack.