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Cabin boy   /kˈæbən bɔɪ/   Listen
noun
Cabin  n.  
1.
A cottage or small house; a hut. "A hunting cabin in the west."
2.
A small room; an inclosed place. "So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive."
3.
A room in ship for officers or passengers.
Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.





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"Cabin boy" Quotes from Famous Books



... bed-making was over she and Edgar and Bemis would go to school. Aldora and Joey, the two youngest, went outdoors to play. And Captain Sears Kendrick, late master of the ship Hawkeye, and before that of the Fair Wind and the Far Seas and goodness knows how many others, who ran away to ship as cabin boy when he was thirteen, who fought the Malay pirates when he was eighteen, and outwitted Semmes by outmaneuvering the Alabama when he was twenty-eight, a man once so strong and bronzed and confident, but now ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... Saxtorph came on board, John Saxtorph was the name he gave. He was a sandy little man, hair sandy, complexion sandy, and eyes sandy, too. Nothing striking about him. His soul was as neutral as his color scheme. He said he was strapped and wanted to ship on board. Would go cabin boy, cook, supercargo, or common sailor. Didn't know anything about any of the billets, but said that he was willing to learn. I didn't want him, but his shooting had so impressed me that I took him as common sailor, wages three pounds ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... Neptune in Master Harry's blood preserved him from these doctrines, and before long indeed removed him out of the way of hearing them. Soon after his fifteenth birthday he sailed to learn his profession shipping (by a fiction of the service), as "cabin boy" under his mother's brother. Lord Robert Soules, ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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