Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A surgeon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surgeon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A surgeon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
doctor orsurgeon .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wee hadd to call a chirurgeon to lett Blood for some of the Guests before they coulde be gott to Bedd, whither they were conveyed on stretchers.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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"Boy," shouts M. Radisson, "call a chirurgeon to mend its toes!" and his blade cut a swath across the dandy's shining pumps.
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Down upon the Spaniard they bore through the dusk of the night, and giving orders to the "chirurgeon" to scuttle their craft under them as they were leaving it, they swarmed up the side of the unsuspecting ship and upon its decks in a torrent -- pistol in one hand and cutlass in the other.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882
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Down upon the Spaniard they bore through the dusk of the night, and giving orders to the "chirurgeon" to scuttle their craft under them as they were leaving it, they swarmed up the side of the unsuspecting ship and upon its decks in a torrent -- pistol in one hand and cutlass in the other.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882
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"chirurgeon," the surgeon of the ship, for no other Englishmen, except those of the colonists and the ship's company, could have been at New Plymouth, at the date given, and New England was then included in the term "Virginia."
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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Eir gasped as the chirurgeon set plaster to her bruised side.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Logan got his chirurgeon—and a new plate-mail breastplate, an upgrade from his leather.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Snaff winced as a chirurgeon set a hot towel on his shoulder.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Snaff winced as a chirurgeon set a hot towel on his shoulder.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Logan got his chirurgeon—and a new plate-mail breastplate, an upgrade from his leather.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
madmouth commented on the word chirurgeon
cognate to SBC hirurg
May 1, 2009