cox'n

Two days before Christmas I was told by the cox'n that we had a very long list of requests to see me that morning.

Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic 1993

"A grand race" -- but old Burke had something to say when he steamed up to put our cox'n among us.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

"We were officers and crew and passengers, cox'n and cook, as they say."

Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

"You're wrong there, mate," returned the bowman, quickly, while a look of decision overspread his bluff countenance, "there'll be both a noo cox'n and a noo bowman wanted for her before long, for as sure as the first goes away the tother follers."

The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue 1859

I thocht we was a 'gaun to the bottom; but nae doot the cox'n kens best.

The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1859