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boatswain|ˈbəʊtsweɪn, usually ˈbəʊs(ə)n|
Forms: 5 botswayne, 6 boteswayne, -son, boateswayne, 6–7 boteswaine, boatswaine, 7 boteswan, boateswaine, -son, batsuein, boatswayne, -son(ne, 7–8 boson, 7– boatswain.
[Late OE. bátsweᵹen (Earle's Land Charters 254), f. bát boat n. + *sweᵹen, a. ON. sveinn swain; see bosun, bo'sun.]
1. An officer in a ship who has charge of the sails, rigging, etc., and whose duty it is to summon the men to their duties with a whistle.
c1450Pilgrim's Sea-Voy. 21 in Stacions Rome (1867) 38 Bestowe the boote, bote-swayne, anon. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. 191 To the botswayne of the Mary Talbot a jaket. c1500Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 14 The bote swayne blewe his whystell full shryll. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 10 Good Boteswaine haue care: where's the Master? 1635Brereton Trav. (1844) 165 Boatswain, corruptly called boseon. 1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virg. 172 Obeying the boatsonne. 1685Dryden Albion & Alb. ii. Wks. 1725 V. 396 The merry Boson from his Side His whistle takes. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. i. 694 Thrice with shrill note the boatswain's whistle rung. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 123 His vessel China-bound, And wanting yet a boatswain.
2. The Arctic Skua (Cataractes parasiticus).
1835Sir J. Ross N.-W. Pass. iii. 40 We also saw..many of the birds called boatswains. 1876Davis Polaris Exp. xvi. 378 On the 14th, Joe shot a bird called a boatswain.
3. Comb. boatswain-bird (see quot.); boatswain's chair, cradle, a board on which a sailor (or other workman) sits when at work aloft; boatswain's-mate, a boatswain's deputy or assistant.
1652Proc. in Parl. No. 170 A Boatswains mate 1l. 15s. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xi, Among our killed, was a Dutch boatswain's mate. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Boatswain-bird, Phaeton æthereus, a tropical bird, so called from its sort of whistle. It is distinguished by two long feathers in the tail, called the marling-spike. 1894Bo'suns chair [see bosun]. 1928Daily Express 19 Nov. 11/7 When you have been sitting up in a bo'sun's cradle playing hell with a pneumatic riveter. |