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Skua :: Skua (n.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain..

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..

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

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

Swain :: Swain (n.) A servant.

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

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

Winding :: Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.

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

Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..

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

Swankie :: Swanimote (n.) See Swainmote.

Serang :: Serang (n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain..

Coxswain :: Coxswain (n.) See Cockswain.

Boson :: Boson (n.) See Boatswain.

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

Swelled :: Sweinmote (n.) See Swainmote.

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

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)..

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