·- An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
·noun A mixing box materials. II. Harbor ·noun The mansion of a heavenly body. III. Harbor ·noun S...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. II. Master ·vi To be skillful; to <<Excel>>. III. Ma...
The epithet for the captain or commander of a merchant vessel. When England first became a maritime ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. ...
·add. ·- In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator...
·noun The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively. ...
·noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, ·etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. ...
A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
church-warden. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A dockyard official. (See master-attendant.) ...
A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...
The officer placed in charge of a barrack. ...
A superior officer, captain, appointed to superintend disembarkation of an attacking force, who hold...
An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...
A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...
An officer in the royal dockyards appointed to assist in the fitting or dismantling, removing or sec...
Shipmaster or captain of a merchant vessel. ...
The chief superintendent in the building and repairing of ships in the royal dockyards. ...
The officer to whom a prize is given in charge to carry her into port. ...
A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...
A commercial and marine auctioneer. ...
The prime minister, who has the patronage of all posts and places. ...
A title which, in 1814, was simplified to commander, the next degree above lieutenant; he ranks with...
In former times was an officer appointed to command the police-duty of a ship, to teach the crew the...
An officer of an hour or two, when the hands were piped "to mischief." The lord or abbot of misrule ...
Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...
A gardener. ...
A baker. ...
One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor. ...
A master on board the commander-in-chief's ship, who has a general superintendence of the stores iss...
An officer appointed by the commissioners of the navy to attend to the navigating a ship under the d...