Cabin Boy Definition

noun
A boy whose work is to serve and run errands for the officers and passengers aboard a ship.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cabin Boy

Noun

Singular:
cabin boy
Plural:
cabin-boys

Cabin Boy Sentence Examples

  • He has stated in his autobiography that through all his early years of struggle, when he was successively grocer's apprentice at Fiirstenberg, cabin-boy on the "Dorothea" bound for Venezuela, and, after her wreck, office attendant and then book-keeper in Amsterdam, he nourished a passion for the Homeric story and an ambition to become a great linguist.

  • He studied at Harvard from 1766 to 1768, when he went to sea as a cabin boy.

  • He's the cabin boy on board the luxury airship, the Aurora.

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