"bosun" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Corruption of boatswain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosuns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bosun (plural bosuns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship",
          "word": "boatswain"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bosun's chair"
        },
        {
          "word": "rum bosun"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-bosun-en-noun-9ypT24Dv",
      "links": [
        [
          "boatswain",
          "boatswain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bo'sun"
        },
        {
          "word": "bo's'n"
        },
        {
          "word": "bos'n"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "bosun"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bosun's chair"
    },
    {
      "word": "rum bosun"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Corruption of boatswain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosuns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bosun (plural bosuns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship",
          "word": "boatswain"
        }
      ],
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        "English contractions",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boatswain",
          "boatswain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bo'sun"
    },
    {
      "word": "bo's'n"
    },
    {
      "word": "bos'n"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bosun"
}