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Definition of Petty officer
1. Noun. A noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army.
Specialized synonyms: Master-at-arms, Scpo, Senior Chief Petty Officer
Generic synonyms: Enlisted Officer, Noncom, Noncommissioned Officer
Definition of Petty officer
1. Noun. A non-commissioned officer in the US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petty Officer
Literary usage of Petty officer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"for or on account of the service of any petty officer, &c. on " board, &c.
knowing the ... petty officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Statute of Frauds: As it Regards Declarations in Trust by William Roberts (1807)
"... granted to the next of kin of any warrant or petty officer, seaman, non-commissioned
officer of marines, or marine, unless the goods and chattels of ..."
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"petty officer of the Customs. In 1776 he cm- barked at Boston for Halifax, with
the British Army. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Wills and Codicils by William Roberts (1815)
"goods and chattels of such warrant or petty officer, seaman, non-commissioned
officer of marines or marine, do amount to the value of twenty pounds, ..."
5. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With by Henry Keppel, James Brooke (1846)
"Randolph, senior lieutenant; Mr. Huxham, midshipman; 2 petty officers, and 17
seamen; (pinnace), Mr. Nolloth, mate; Mr. Balcomb, midshipman; 1 petty officer ..."
6. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"If made by any petty officer or seaman, whilst they belong to, ... If any such
letter of attorney or will shall be made by any such petty officer, &c., ..."
7. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"Whenever any petty officer, seaman, or marine, shall be turned over from one ship
to another, in any port of the united kingdom, or on the coast thereof, ..."
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