bowsmann.
/ˈbaʊzmən/ = bowman n.2: used of a man positioned at the bow without an oar, having certain specified duties.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with duties in other specific areas
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1776 M. Cocking Jrnl. 10 Mar. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1951) 14 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.
1804 M. Lewis in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) II. 258 The one not engaged at the oar will attend as the Bows-man.
1840 Knickerbocker 16 270 The delicious white-fish are so numerous, that the bow's-man takes his scoop~net and literally dips them into the boat.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 289 The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate.
1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 85 271 Not only the steersman but the bowsman.
1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 63 The six members of Black's crew..consisted of bowsman and steersman, and four middlemen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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