boatswain's pipe

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Boatswain’s Pipe.—“Whee-e, weet weet weet, wee-e.”

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That evening about sunset old Ap’s boatswain’s pipe was heard high above the whistling wind; the breeze had freshened, and sail was being taken in, and the starboard courses were hauled farther aft.

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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.

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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.

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The drum beats to quarters, and whilst the roll yet reverberates around, the shrill sound of the boatswain’s pipe is heard above all.

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