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Definition of Cockswains
1. cockswain [n] - See also: cockswain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockswains
Literary usage of Cockswains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book and National Register for 1869: Astronomical by David Nelson Camp (1869)
"... Î7 S7 Chief Quartermaster» 30 80 Ï8 38 Quartermasters 25 Ü5 25 25 cockswains
... 30 30 80 30 cockswains... 25 26 К 25 Captains of Forecastle 26 S6 S6 S5 ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"... gunner's mates, carpenter's mates (allowing for each vessel two of each),
cooks, cockswains (allowing for each vessel one of each), Serjeants of marines ..."
3. The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1840)
"I have had cockswains with me who could come down that shoot too, if they only
knew the channel." " It isn't enough to know the ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"... master atar ms, corporals, yeomen of the sheets, cockswains, quarter-masters,
quarter-master's-mates, chirurgeon-mates, yeo- nieu of the powder-room, ..."
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