Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Naut, the men of the starboard watch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Naut.), obsolete The men in the starboard watch.
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Examples
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Presently, he heard Captain Dinks tell the mates and starboard watch that they might go below, and Mr McCarthy and the others went to their cabins aft while the "star-bowlines" tumbled down the main hatchway, all glad to have a spell of rest and be out of the bitter cold night wind which almost seemed to freeze their bones and pierce them through and through.
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When we got on deck the man at the wheel struck eight bells (four o'clock in the morning), and "All star-bowlines, ahoy!" brought the other watch up, but there was no going below for us.
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