cabin boy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cabin boy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cabin boy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cabin boy n a young man acting as a servant on a ship
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cabin \Cab"in\ (k[acr]b"[icr]n), n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] 1. A cottage or small house; a hut. --Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. --E. Everett. 2. A small room; an inclosed place. So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive. --Spenser. 3. A room in ship for officers or passengers. {Cabin boy}, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.