cockswain
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The spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text.
From Fighting for the Right by Shute, A. B.
"Yes, my Lord, you hit him," observed the cockswain, consolingly.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.
They pulled with all their might; and Lanark, the cockswain, steered her for the siamang.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
The cockswain persuaded us that the seal was dead to a certainty; but that P—— had stowed such a locker of shot in its head, it was too heavy to float.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.
Rudd had rather dim notions of some of the games, so that Eric was established both as center rush of the football team and the cockswain in the crew.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
