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Meanings of ship's boy in inglés
Young low ranking male employee who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship.
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Examples for "cabin boy"
Examples for "cabin boy"
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.
Usage of ship's boy in inglés
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.
6
Sure enough, I had not been very long on deck when the ship's boy appeared before me.
7
How'd ye like to be a ship's boy, hey, and get tickled up by a bo'sun's rope-end?
8
I suppose no one would become a ship's boy until he had proved himself unfit for life anywhere else.
9
I was ship's boy aboard.
10
The ship's boy, what was in the shrouds, saw 'em on the run and set up a screech: 'Hooray!
11
He stayed on deck, making himself useful; you must have been a ship's boy, master, one of the crew said.
12
To accept the invitation Columbus set sail on the morning of December the indiscretion of confiding the helm to a ship's boy.
13
Amid the heat of battle and the excitement of success, Decatur did not forget little Jack Creamer, the lately enrolled ship's boy.
14
I was wearing the clothes of a ship's boy, canvas trousers, thick blucher shoes, a rough check shirt, and a straw hat.
15
And he referred once more to the luck of a certain Mr. James Hawkins, ship's boy, late of "Treasure Island."
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.