"captain's servant" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "captain's servants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "captain's servant (plural captain's servants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time",
          "text": "\"When one reads of a distinguished naval officer having been \"a captain's servant,\" it does not mean that he blacked the captain's boots, mixed his grog, and emptied his slops, but that he entered the service under a captain's protection.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Before 1796, the rating of a boy entering the Royal Navy at about the age of twelve before becoming a midshipman."
      ],
      "id": "en-captain's_servant-en-noun--6pF4sbC",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rating",
          "rating"
        ],
        [
          "boy",
          "boy"
        ],
        [
          "Royal Navy",
          "Royal Navy"
        ],
        [
          "midshipman",
          "midshipman"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, historical) Before 1796, the rating of a boy entering the Royal Navy at about the age of twelve before becoming a midshipman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "Apprentice boy in the RN",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "נַעַר הַקֶּפְּטֵן"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "captain's servant"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "captain's servants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "captain's servant (plural captain's servants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time",
          "text": "\"When one reads of a distinguished naval officer having been \"a captain's servant,\" it does not mean that he blacked the captain's boots, mixed his grog, and emptied his slops, but that he entered the service under a captain's protection.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Before 1796, the rating of a boy entering the Royal Navy at about the age of twelve before becoming a midshipman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rating",
          "rating"
        ],
        [
          "boy",
          "boy"
        ],
        [
          "Royal Navy",
          "Royal Navy"
        ],
        [
          "midshipman",
          "midshipman"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, historical) Before 1796, the rating of a boy entering the Royal Navy at about the age of twelve before becoming a midshipman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "Apprentice boy in the RN",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "נַעַר הַקֶּפְּטֵן"
    }
  ],
  "word": "captain's servant"
}