boatswains
Meaning of boatswains
noun
- The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
- The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
- A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- The tropicbird.
Information about boatswains
- It is a name.
- The singular form of boatswains is: boatswain.
- Languages in which boatswains is used:
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Hyphenation of boatswains
boatswains
- It consists of 1 syllables and 10 chars.
- boatswains is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with boatswains
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