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boatswains

boatswains is the plural of boatswain.

Meaning of boatswain

Noun

boatswain (plural boatswains)

  1. The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
  2. The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
  3. A kind of gull, the jaeger.
  4. The tropicbird.

Questions about boatswains

What is boatswains the plural of?
Boatswains is the plural of boatswain.

Words near boatswains in the dictionary

  1. boatswain's pipe
  2. boatswain's pipes
  3. boatswain-bird
  4. boatswain-birds
  5. Boatswainbird Island
  6. boatswains
  7. boatswen
  8. boatswoman
  9. boatswomen
  10. boattail
  11. boattailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boatswains (page history and authors); boatswain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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