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Cabin boy   /kˈæbən bɔɪ/   Listen
Cabin boy

noun
1.
A young man acting as a servant on a ship.






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"Cabin boy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Morrises speak about vessels that ran between Fairport and a place called the West Indies, carrying cargoes of lumber and fish, and bringing home molasses, spices, fruit, and other things. On one of these vessels, called the "Mary Jane," was a cabin boy, who was a friend of the Morris boys, ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders

... times higher than at others, occasionally they blew a hurricane. He quarrelled with his officers, and his orders to his men were always uttered in oaths. Scarcely a day passed that he did not have some one of his sailors flogged. One night, the cabin boy left the water-can sitting on the cabin floor, instead of putting it on the sideboard, where it usually stood. For this offence the commander ordered him up on deck after midnight, and made the quarter-master flog him. The instrument used in this case, (the regular flogging stick ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... The Captain told him no more fascinating stories, and when Jeremy wanted to know about the ship with the diamonds and rubies and the little sea village where she lay hid and the Caribbees natives, and the chances of becoming a cabin boy, and the further exploitation of the tatooes—all these things the Captain brushed aside as though they no longer interested him in the least. He, on the other hand, wanted now to know exactly where Jeremy lived, what the house was like, where the back doors were, how ...
— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole

... the ambition for river life had remained with him—and now there seemed some possibility of realizing these ambitions. He first wanted to be a cabin boy; then his ideal was to be a deck hand, because of his splendid conspicuousness as he stood on the end of the stage plank with a coil of rope in his hand. But these were only day-dreams —he didn't admit, even to himself, that they were ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson



Words linked to "Cabin boy" :   servant, retainer



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