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Meanings of ship's boy in English

Russian
юнга
Portuguese
grumete
Spanish
aprendiz de marinero
Catalan
grumet
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Young low ranking male employee who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship.

        Related terms
        юнга
        Usage of ship's boy in English
        1
        Personally, I had rather be a desert savage than a ship's boy.
        Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
        2
        Then the ship's boy would have as much as the captain!
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
        3
        Every one, from the skipper to the ship's boy, had a mugful; some had two.
        Chatterbox, 1905.
        4
        He got employment (under an assumed name) as a ship's boy.
        Blind Love
        5
        He found that as ship's boy he was at the beck and call of the whole company.
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        6
        Sure enough, I had not been very long on deck when the ship's boy appeared before me.
        Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
        7
        How'd ye like to be a ship's boy, hey, and get tickled up by a bo'sun's rope-end?
        Jim Davis
        8
        I suppose no one would become a ship's boy until he had proved himself unfit for life anywhere else.
        Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
        9
        I was ship's boy aboard.
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        10
        The ship's boy, what was in the shrouds, saw 'em on the run and set up a screech: 'Hooray!
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        11
        He stayed on deck, making himself useful; you must have been a ship's boy, master, one of the crew said.
        Wolf hall
        12
        To accept the invitation Columbus set sail on the morning of December the indiscretion of confiding the helm to a ship's boy.
        Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
        13
        Amid the heat of battle and the excitement of success, Decatur did not forget little Jack Creamer, the lately enrolled ship's boy.
        The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
        14
        I was wearing the clothes of a ship's boy, canvas trousers, thick blucher shoes, a rough check shirt, and a straw hat.
        Jim Davis
        15
        And he referred once more to the luck of a certain Mr. James Hawkins, ship's boy, late of "Treasure Island."
        Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of t...
        16
        She would not leave the port for some weeks; but he had seen the captain, who had agreed to take him as ship's boy.
        The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain
        Translations for ship's boy
        Russian
        юнга
        Portuguese
        grumete
        Catalan
        grumet