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Meanings of cabin boy in anglès
Young low ranking male employee who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship.
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Examples for "ship's boy"
Examples for "ship's boy"
1
Personally, I had rather be a desert savage than a ship's boy.
2
Then the ship's boy would have as much as the captain!
3
Every one, from the skipper to the ship's boy, had a mugful; some had two.
4
He got employment (under an assumed name) as a ship's boy.
5
He found that as ship's boy he was at the beck and call of the whole company.
Usage of cabin boy in anglès
1
I retired to sleep, while the cabin boy cleared away the wreck.
2
Bek wanted to do something more than serve as a cabin boy.
3
He couldn't conceive of anyone taking him on as a cabin boy.
4
Goodness, they've given me a cabin boy with no sea legs at all!
5
But instead of the goats, he saw the naked cabin boy.
6
He started to continue, but the cabin boy cut him off.
7
Is Ahren less a man than this cabin boy you insist on including?
8
So he took me on board, and I was a little cabin boy.
9
A Japanese served as cook, and a Chinese as cabin boy.
10
Javel had on board his younger brother, four sailors and a cabin boy.
11
I was a cabin boy, deck boy, and engine room boy.
12
He was still the ship's cabin boy and must continue to behave as such.
13
The cabin boy hesitated a moment: not nervous, just weighing up possibilities and advantages.
14
I was the cabin boy and slept on the transoms in the captain's cabin.
15
He was to act in the capacity of cabin boy.
16
On the doorsill he paused to ask the cabin boy when his ship sailed.