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

The voice leapt an octave and rang shrill as a boatswain's pipe: "And next came on the lovely Rose, The Philomel, her fire-ship, closed, And the Little Brisk was sore exposed That day at Navarino."

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard

The call of the boatswain's pipe rasped their ears, and the preparation for stowing the bodies in the jolly-boat left them unnerved and sick.

From The After House by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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)

Soon it came—a cleverly imitated boatswain's pipe for All Hands!—and suddenly the moaning ceased, the guards sat up in swift alarm.

From Gold Out of Celebes by Dingle, Aylward Edward