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Bowsmen vs Bowsman - What's the difference?

bowsmen | bowsman |

As nouns the difference between bowsmen and bowsman

is that bowsmen is while bowsman is (nautical) a sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.

bowsmen

English

Noun

(head)

    • bowsman

    English

    Noun

    (bowsmen)
  • (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."