starbowline
English
Noun
starbowline (plural starbowlines)
- (nautical, obsolete) Any of the men in the starboard watch[1].
- 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 57395299:
- 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!
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References
- 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for starbowline under Star-bowlines in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)