supercargo
Americannoun
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supercargoes,
plural
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supercargos
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of supercargo
1690–1700; < Spanish sobrecargo, with sobre- over (< Latin super ) Latinized; replacing supracargo (with supra- for Spanish sobre- ); see cargo
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Two of the happiest years of his life were spent just after the War as the non-working "supercargo" of Shipping Board tramp steamers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ebenezer Townsend, supercargo of a New England whaler, noted in his diary on Aug. 19, 1798 that Hawaii's King Kamehameha I, had "a Jew cook."
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of proverbial rollicking freedom, rhythmic sea-chanteys, rough cammeraderie of the sea, Blettsworthy, supercargo, found ship's quarters confining, and ship's officers hostile.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been asked to go as captain, supercargo, and part owner on a voyage to Sumatra and the pepper islands.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Various supercargoes were discharged and she left, the evening after arriving, for Oslo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain King was sent up to Canton to expedite the supplies that were wanted, and experienced every possible assistance from the supercargoes and gentlemen of the Company's factory there.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
For the steamers, with their high-collared, clerkly pursers, have supplanted for good the trim schooners, with their brown-faced, pyjama-clad supercargoes, and the romance of the South Seas has gone.
From The Call Of The South 1908 by Louis Becke
His directions to his captains and supercargoes, full, minute, exact, peremptory, show the hand of a master.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
It had something quaintly "colonial" about it, suggesting supercargoes, and West India merchants of long ago.
From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne
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