All 15 Uses of
coxswain
in
Treasure Island
- And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
Chpt 10 *coxswain = the person in charge of a boat (small ship)
- "He's no common man, Barbecue," said the coxswain to me.†
Chpt 10
- "Oh, I know'd Dick was square," returned the voice of the coxswain, Israel Hands.†
Chpt 11
- "Well, I don't say no, do I?" growled the coxswain.†
Chpt 11
- "John," cries the coxswain, "you're a man!"†
Chpt 11
- In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.†
Chpt 16
- One I recognized for the coxswain's, Israel Hands, that had been Flint's gunner in former days.†
Chpt 23
- With these I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain's reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.†
Chpt 25
- I should, I think, have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.†
Chpt 25
- The coxswain told me how to lay the ship to; after a good many trials I succeeded, and we both sat in silence over another meal.†
Chpt 26
- Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be unnatural, and as for the notion of his preferring wine to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it.†
Chpt 26
- The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.†
Chpt 26
- So near were we, indeed, that my head came against the coxswain's foot with a crack that made my teeth rattle.†
Chpt 26
- They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds and plunged head first into the water.†
Chpt 26
- The dirk, where it had pinned my shoulder to the mast, seemed to burn like a hot iron; yet it was not so much these real sufferings that distressed me, for these, it seemed to me, I could bear without a murmur; it was the horror I had upon my mind of falling from the cross-trees into that still green water, beside the body of the coxswain.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
the person in charge of a boat (small ship) -- such as a boat used in rowing competition