Bowsmen vs Bowsman - What's the difference?
bowsmen | bowsman |
(nautical) A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.
1851 , , Moby Dick , Chapter 72:
“Being the savage's bowsman , that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back."