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 himself took no repose, sharing the hardships his men were enduring, never failing to come on deck, as they did, at the sound of the boatswain’s pipe.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

A little before twelve o'clock we heard the boatswain's pipe, and the long drawn shout, "On deck all the starboard watch," and "All the starboard watch to muster."

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell

Presently, too, life on board the vessels was stirring, and the shrill whistle of the boatswain’s pipe roused all hands to their duties.

From Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by Rainey, W. (William)