boatswain's pipe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Gordon Stables
"Call away the whale-boat!" cried the officer, and in a moment the boatswain's pipe was screeching, and three or four seamen trotted aft in their oilskins.
From Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 by Various
As soon as the first streaks of dawn Were to be seen a long-drawn boatswain's pipe, like the wail of a lost soul, came from forward, and the order "scrub and wash clothes" given.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Russell Doubleday
Doubtless it was a hard case for them, the sons of rich men; but they had only to obey the boatswain's pipe, and "eat, drink, and be filled."
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic
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