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bosun's chair

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Noun1.bosun's chair - a seat consisting of a board and a ropebosun's chair - a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship
boatswain's chair
seat - any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down"
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It was lashed to the rocks and fitted with a bosun's chair so some could be saved.
Charter's peril; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy of Merseyside Maritime ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
At one point maybe 85 feet high, the bosun's chair rig slipped from beneath Reed and he instantly dropped downward, his descent stopped by the seat becoming wedged at his shoulders.
Man saved after dangling from flagpole by Bill McKelway / Richmond Times-Dispatch
Ossie was just 11 when the War finished but he can still remember seeing his mother slung over the side of a ship on a bosun's chair with cables wrapped around her as she welded something on to a ship at Walker Naval Yard.
Women at war by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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