Word Meanings - BOATSWAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• Chargeship
  The office of a charge d'affaires.
• Rigging
  of Rig
• Boatsman
  A boatman.
• Cordage
  Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
• Boatswain
  An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
• Riggish
  Like a rig or wanton.
• Officer
  One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
• Officered
  of Officer
• Summonses
  of Summons
• Chargeable
  That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
• Officering
  of Officer
• Summons
  The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.

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