What does boarding-master mean?
Boarding-master means (historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing..
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(historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing..
Use boarding-master when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Boarding-master means (historical) A person employed to find crews for ships, sometimes by illicit practices such as shanghaiing..
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