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Swaip :: Swainship (n.) The condition of a swain.

Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..

Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..

Crew :: Crew (n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew..

Swainish :: Swain (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

Dagswain :: Dagswain (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The jager gull.

Swankie :: Swanimote (n.) See Swainmote.

Swainmote :: Swainling (n.) A little swain.

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

Swainling :: Swainish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant..

Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The tropic bird.

Swain :: Swain (n.) A servant.

Swelled :: Sweinmote (n.) See Swainmote.

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..

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