Noun: coxswain
| Singular | coxswain |
| Plural | coxswains |
Sample Sentences
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Canadian Navy Coxswain (or Capitaine d'Armes) is the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a ship
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British Royal Navy Cadets Cadet Coxswain is the highest normal rank which may be achieved.
Nouns inflected like coxswain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English cokswain, equivalent to cock (“small boat”) + swain (“boy, servant”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cokswain'.