| 词汇 | bos’n |
| 词源 | bos’n; boatswain. Bos’n is a corruption of boatswain, the boy (“swain”) who took care of the ship’s dinghy and summoned its crew. The boatswain didn’t get his whistle until sometime in the 15th century and wasn’t called a bos’n for 200 years more. |
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