Obs.
1. A boatswain.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 40. The master of the galiasse gart the botis man pas vp to the top.
1622. Malynes, Anc. Law Merch., 135. The persons that are in a Ship may bee thus in order … The Master of the Ship, the Pilot, the Masters mate, the Ship-wright or Carpenter, the Boats-man, the Purser, the Chirurgeon, the Cooke, and the Ships boy.
2. = BOATMAN 1.
1598. W. Phillip, Linschoten’s Trav., in Arb., Garner, III. 30. Some of the boatsmen were Indians.
1684. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XV. Fables (1700), 520.
| And Boatsmen, through the Chrystal Water show | |
| To wond’ring Passengers the Walls below. |
