Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

bosun

bosun , noun

a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen; a contraction of boatswain.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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