See yeoman.
·noun A servant; a retainer. II. Yeoman ·noun A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An experienced hand placed in charge of a store-room, who should be able to keep the accounts of sup...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See yeoman. ...
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...
A petty officer appointed to assist the gunner. ...
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. ...
Men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby become qualified to instruct others in that...