coastguardsman
Americannoun
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coastguardsmen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coastguardsman
1840–50; Coast Guard + 's 1 + man
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In 1942 he appeared on the New York stage in a supporting role as a coastguardsman in “Yankee Point,” a home-front drama.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2010
Peeler, the coastguardsman, after descending the cliff, resumed his ordinary avocations, and sent his daughter to a superior high school.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
If Rose loved the young coastguardsman before, she absolutely idolised him now.
From Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Septimus Minor had lived in Crocusville ever since he could remember, and the coastguardsman some years longer.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
All she knew about it herself, however, was, that she had always either a policeman or a coastguardsman to talk to, which added very much to her pleasure in life, and also to Anne's.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand
No one walked along the cliffs except the coastguardsmen.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
The coastguardsmen haul on the whip, and off goes our ’prentice boy like a seagull.
From Battles with the Sea by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But the gallant coastguardsmen had other work cut out for them that night.
From Saved by the Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
She had seen occasional reference in newspapers and magazines to lifeboat work, and she had been thrilled by the record of noble deeds done by heroic seamen and coastguardsmen.
From Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The coastguardsmen bent down, too, and lifting the boys up were proceeding to lay them down again on their faces, when the Captain stopped them.
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene
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