boatswain's pipe

American  

noun

1. a high-pitched whistle used by a boatswain for giving signals.

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Example Sentences

Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak.

From Time Magazine Archive

He tarried ashore with her until the boatswain's pipe trilled from the Plymouth Adventure to summon the passengers on board.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle

Fortunately, Mr. Lowington, who had heard the boatswain's pipe, came on deck at this critical moment.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

It was when I was thinking whether bed would be, as I have so often found it, the best answer to doubt, that I heard a boatswain’s pipe.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

There was plenty of bustle and stir and din now, for a time at least, and bawling of orders, and shrill shriek of boatswain’s pipe.

From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon