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the person in charge of a boat (small ship) — such as a boat used in rowing competition

Her diminutive size is well suited to being the coxswain.

He is the coxswain at Harvard.
Benjamin Pump was invariably the coxswain and net caster of Richard's boat...
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island

coxswain = the person in charge of a boat (small ship)

The gig was already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Shall I have a cox-comb of frieze?
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
—Cox' my passion! give me your hand:—how does your drum?
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
Gisela's teenage daughters were flirting with Trina Cox's teenage sons, who were frankly pretty fine.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
Wonder if he's going to make me his coxswain.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
Cox and Greenwood; but the Major being in Madras at the time, had no particular call for coals.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
I made my way up the aisle, wedging myself three to a seat beside Jane Todd and Guylinda Cox, already dozing.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
His close friend, the lawyer Cox Sproule, was a different matter.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
At all events, the Lord High Admiral couldn't command a yawl with dignity, if he consulted the cockswain every time he wished to go ashore.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
The Coxes were wondering last night whether she would get into any great family.
Jane Austen -- Emma
I voted for Cox, I voted for Al Smith, and I voted for Roosevelt.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
As he was now it would be like Wally Cox taking on Boom Boom Mancini.
Stephen King -- Misery
First Mate Cox had told her about it, probably hoping to frighten her because he was that sort of person.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
He said, just now, before he went out, he should send word to Cox to distrain, if Fowler didn't come and pay up his arrears this week.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
All to myself, or is it Box and Cox?
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach

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