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starbolin

starbolin is the alternative form of starbowline.

Meaning of starbowline

Noun

starbowline (plural starbowlines)

  1. (obsolete) Any of the men in the starboard watch.
    • So, so, (thrusts his head down the scuttle,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y! Eight bells there below! Tumble up!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 40”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of starbolin

pluralstarbolins

Questions about starbolin

What is starbolin the alternative form of?
Starbolin is the alternative form of starbowline.

Words near starbolin in the dictionary

  1. starboarded
  2. starboarding
  3. starboards
  4. starboardside
  5. starboardsides
  6. starbolin
  7. starbolins
  8. Starbotton
  9. starbound
  10. starbowline
  11. starbowlines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starbolin (page history and authors); starbowline (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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