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bowsman|ˈbaʊzmən|
[ad. Fr. bosseman bosman, misunderstood as ‘bow's-man’.]
= bowman2: used of a man positioned at the bow without an oar, having certain specified duties.
1776M. Cocking Jrnl. 10 Mar. in Pubn. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1951) XIV. 37 He..will make a proposal to them for employing Canadians to be engaged by him for a term of years at Montreal to serve as Bowsmen. 1804Lewis in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1904) I. 34 The one not engaged at the oar [of the batteau] will attend as the Bowsman. 1840Knickerbocker XVI. 270 The delicious white-fish are so numerous, that the bow's-man takes his scoop⁓net and literally dips them into the boat. 1851Melville Moby Dick II. xii. 107 The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate. 1935Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXV. 271 Not only the steersman but the bowsman. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 63 The six members of Black's crew..consisted of bowsman and steersman, and four middlemen. |