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Definition of Cabin boy

Cabin boy
Cabin Cab"in (k[a^]b"[i^]n), n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] 1. A cottage or small house; a hut. --Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. --E. Everett. 2. A small room; an inclosed place. So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. --Spenser. 3. A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

Meaning of Cabin boy from wikipedia

- Cabin Boy is a 1994 American fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick, co-produced by Tim Burton, and starring comedian Chris Elliott. Elliott co-wrote...
- A cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy (in the sense of low-ranking young male employee, not always a minor in the juridical sense) who waits on the officers...
- A cabin boy is a servant on a ship. Cabin Boy may also refer to: "Cabin Boy" (short story), a 1951 science fiction story by Damon Knight "Cabin Boy" (song)...
- their own lives they would need to kill and eat the ship's 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker, who by that time had fallen seriously ill after drinking...
- series Get a Life (1990–1992) on Fox, and wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy (1994). His writing for Letterman won four consecutive Primetime Emmy...
- cabaña (Spanish for cabin; compare cabin boy, a similar occupation aboard ships during the age of sail), often on a beach. A pool boy or pool attendant...
- Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, ****isted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is...
- from England to Australia". Accordingly, they had killed and "eaten the cabin boy". No lot drawing is mentioned, but they had somehow escaped legal consequences...
- Es****, only five of the seventeen were alive. First mate Owen Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the ordeal. The tragedy attracted...
- 13, Robinson realised that he was **** when he fell in love with another boy at school. Until 1967, male homo****ual activity was a crime in England, punishable...