Defenition of the word boatswain

• Defenition of the word boatswain

  • A petty officer on a ship, responsible for the ship's equipment and for controlling the work of the crew.
  • a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen

Synonyms for the word boatswain

• • bo's'n
  • bo'sun
  • bos'n
  • bosun

Hypernyms for the word boatswain

• • gob
  • Jack
  • Jack-tar
  • mariner
  • old salt
  • sea dog
  • seafarer
  • seaman
  • tar

See other words

• • What is cunninger
  • The definition of improvised
  • The interpretation of the word totally unplanned
  • What is meant by unintentional
  • The lexical meaning fifty pence piece
  • The dictionary meaning of the word simultaneous
  • The grammatical meaning of the word renderings
  • Meaning of the word do-it-yourself
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word elects
  • The origin of the word by accident
  • Synonym for the word boatswains
  • Antonyms for the word real-time
  • Homonyms for the word expertness
  • Hyponyms for the word ingenuity
  • Holonyms for the word hewers
  • Hypernyms for the word hewer
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word hewed
  • Translation of the word in other languages hewing