Usually means: Helmsman or leader of boat crew.
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  10. cockswain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  15. cockswain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cockswain)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of coxswain [In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew.]

Similar:
coxswain, bosun, boatswain, lifeboatsman, bos'n, cock-boat, boatswain's mate, coxie, boatsman, cockleboat, more...

Opposite:
crew member, sailor, seaman, deckhand

Adjectives:
old, affected, prudent, wary, literal, excited, deliberate, sedate, minded, gallant, helpless

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Similar:
coxswain, bosun, boatswain, lifeboatsman, bos'n, cock-boat, boatswain's mate, coxie, boatsman, cockleboat, more...

Opposite:
crew member, sailor, seaman, deckhand

Adjectives:
old, affected, prudent, wary, literal, excited, deliberate, sedate, minded, gallant, helpless



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