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"etymology_text": "Corruption of boatswain.",
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"word": "bosun's chair"
},
{
"word": "rum bosun"
}
],
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"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "They tied us up—the fellow who handled me could tie like a bosun—and there we lay with our toes up, beneath a tree, while a great brute stood guard over us with a club in his hand.",
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"word": "bo'sun"
},
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},
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"word": "bos'n"
}
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],
"word": "bosun"
}
{
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"word": "bosun's chair"
},
{
"word": "rum bosun"
}
],
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"word": "bosun"
}
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