Bosun
boatswain.
Historical Examples
Wide Courses James Brendan Connolly
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson
A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce
Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn
Humphrey Bold Herbert Strang
Command William McFee
Command William McFee
Command William McFee
Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller
The Bonadventure Edmund Blunden
noun
(nautical) a variant spelling of boatswain
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