starbowline

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noun

Any of the men in the starboard watch.

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Meanings

nounstarbowline (plural starbowlines)

plural starbowlines · alternative starbolin

  1. obsoletenauticalAny of the men in the starboard watch.

    So, so, (thrusts his head down the scuttle,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y! Eight bells there below! Tumble up!

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 40”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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Chicago

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