A petty officer appointed to assist the gunner.
·adj ·see 2d Mat. II. Mate ·vt To <<Checkmate>>. III. Mate ·noun ·same·as <<Checkmate>>. IV. Mate...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Generally implies adjunct or assistant. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The name of the gun to which boys were married, or lashed, to be punished. ...
Is shorter and flatter than the ordinary handspike, and is shod with iron at the point, so that it b...
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...
See quadrant. ...
An old rating for the man who made the cartridge-bags. ...
See yeoman. ...
Men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby become qualified to instruct others in that...
·noun A <<Companion>>. ...
·add. ·- Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men. ...
The officer who steers when a high personage is to visit the ship. ...
Is an assistant to the boatswain, who had the peculiar command of the long-boat. He summons the watc...
A companion, when two occupy a cabin furnished with two bed-places. ...
, or chief officer The next to a commander in a merchantman, and who, in the absence of the latter...
The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...
The officer who commands in the absence of the master, and shares the duty with him at sea. (See chi...
An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...
The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...