The spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting for the Right] Reference

The boat was manned by six sailors and a cockswain.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

The free cockswain of the boat was, however, a drunkard, and intrusted much to Sears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference

"Load, your Honours, load," exclaimed the sporting cockswain; -- "here they come again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"The pilot says, my Lord, that she is so, and looking for her husband," the cockswain answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

‘Shove her off!’ cries the cockswain, who looks as easy and comfortable as if he were steering in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

The cockswain, working like a telegraph with his swinging oar, generally contrived to pick off these skirmishers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"Put your helm to starboard, your Honour," said the cockswain to me in a quiet voice, "and bring her head right round.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

After this, he was sent to Sydney, as one of the crew in the police-boat, of which he was soon made assistant cockswain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference

The cockswain kept his eye on the rock, and, every now and then, hinted to me the course I should steer; for I had taken the tiller.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"Keep your weather eye up, your Honour," exclaimed the cockswain from his commanding point to P----, who had not seen the advancing ducks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"No, my Lord; let them be," replied the cockswain with as much excitement in his face and manner, as if we had been bombarding a strong citadel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Four men sprung into her, and the cockswain took his seat aft; and received, beside the cushions for the seat and back-board, the empty basket of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

When Long-Tom Coffin goes down with his ship, the entire crew mourns the loss of their beloved cockswain, but none with more feeling than his commander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott] Reference

The cockswain persuaded us that the seal was dead to a certainty; but that P---- had stowed such a locker of shot in its head, it was too heavy to float.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Rowing the boat to the spot, the cockswain and his messmate used their whole strength to pull the animal on board, its dimensions not being contemptible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

I jumped up, and running out of the tent, saw the cockswain standing like a nautical statue, motionless, gazing upwards, and with a stick grasped firmly in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"The girls ain't afraid, your Honour," observed the good-humoured cockswain, who was the other sailor, beside King, with me, and had been coquetting already with the four lasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Let us slacken sail, my dears, as we have brought no cockswain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

The captain nodded at the cockswain, and the bowman shoved off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference

Thus far the cockswain and his crew had the fight, on the part of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

"See, sir," said the cockswain, pointing towards the eastern horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

"It is but a lubber's blow, Mr. Merry," returned the cockswain, without.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

Its crew are new hands, and therefore require much instruction from the cockswain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference

They pulled with all their might; and Lanark, the cockswain, steered her for the siamang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference

The cockswain stood examining his game with cool discretion, and replied to this interrogatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The cockswain shook his head and cogitated a moment, as if struck with sundry new ideas, when he answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The cockswain turned his solemn visage, with an extraordinary meaning, towards his commander, before he replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

'Shove her off!' cries the cockswain, who looks as easy and comfortable as if he were steering in the Bay of Biscay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference

One of them came in Captain Terry's boat, but we thought he was cockswain of the boat, and a cockswain is only a sailor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The cockswain had made his arrangements for the combat, with much more method and philosophy than any other man in the vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

You follow the pilot, if you will; but let me sheer off for this dwelling of Colonel Howard, with my cockswain and boat's crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The cockswain, who was moving from the forecastle, turned short at this new mandate, and with an air of remonstrance, ventured to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The admiral himself escaped, but narrowly; his cockswain and a midshipman standing by him being killed, and another midshipman wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Admiral Farragut] Reference

"Out with it, out with it," interrupted the other, with an impatient gesture, that his cockswain knew signified a positive determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The younger man was Horatio Nelson, cockswain under Captain Lutwidge, who was killed at the battle of Trafalgar, thirty-two years after his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference

I shall send my cockswain with you to the abbey, and you will either return with him, in person, within two hours, or give Mr. Griffith and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference