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Is there a particular name for the sailor who keeps watch in the ship's crow's nest?
I'd hate to think it's just lookout, or watchman.
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I don't think so.
Lookout (man), mayhap.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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As an old Navy man (but not a boatswain's mate) I'd say "lookout" is it.
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As an old Navy man (but not a boatswain's mate) I'd say "lookout" is it.
I prefer LL Bean myself.
TEd
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As an old Navy man (but not a boatswain's mate) I'd say "lookout" is it.
I prefer LL Bean myself.
Did you see a capital O in "old"?
I didn't think so.
You been through the rocks and shoals you can talk about the Old Navy.
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Just describing the way things are.
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Prescriptivist.
ROTFL @ "prescriptivist" as an epithet. 
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While we're at it, in old-style ships, how do you call the ship's wooden parapet/wall/railing?
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My picture dictionary says bulwark, but I'm open to correction from the more nautically inclined.
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