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Definition of Bosuns
1. bosun [n] - See also: bosun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bosuns
Literary usage of Bosuns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"... are obsolete, useless, and prejudicial to the advance of true civilization
and the industrial arts, especially the art of agriculture. TH bosuns. ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1870)
"It is also contemplated to make a division of the live stock and heavy bosuns,
to be (hipped chiefly by the Erie road, ..."
3. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1905)
"Both bosuns and Japanese were within » few miles of Mnk- ken. the sacred city of
the Manchas. This city of half a- million people lies in * plain. ..."
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