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CABIN BOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabin boy mean? 

CABIN BOY (noun)
  The noun CABIN BOY has 1 sense:

1. a young man acting as a servant on a shipplay

  Familiarity information: CABIN BOY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CABIN BOY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A young man acting as a servant on a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cabin boy" is a kind of...):

retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))


 Context examples 


On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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