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COXSWAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
Synonyms:
cox; coxswain
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coxswain" is a kind of...):
helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)
Context examples:
In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“He's no common man, Barbecue,” said the coxswain to me.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The dirk, where it had pinned my shoulder to the mast, seemed to burn like a hot iron; yet it was not so much these real sufferings that distressed me, for these, it seemed to me, I could bear without a murmur; it was the horror I had upon my mind of falling from the cross-trees into that still green water, beside the body of the coxswain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With these I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain's reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I should, I think, have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
