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ship-boy
Also ship's boy.
A boy who serves on board ship.
1552Huloet, Shyp boye, Misonauta. 1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 4 This Ship-boyes semblance hath disguis'd me quite. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 5 The aduentrous ship-boyes were in perill of those Sharkes. 1661in Godolphin's View Admir. Jurisd. App. 168 The Master ought to set him on shore,..and..to spare him one of the Ship-boyes to look to him. 1839S. Rogers Voy. Columbus Poems 38 The very ship-boy on the dizzy mast Half breathed his orisons. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Ship-boy, boys apprenticed to learn their sea-duties, but generally appointed as servants. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. ix, ‘Here, you ship's boy’, he cried, ‘out o' that!’ |