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cockswain

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cock⋅swain

  [kok-suhn; spelling pron. kok-sweyn]
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–noun
coxswain.

cox⋅swain

  [kok-suhn, -sweyn]
–noun
1. the steersman of a racing shell.
2. a person who is in charge of a ship's boat and its crew, under an officer, and who steers it.
Also, cockswain.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME cokeswayne. See cockboat, swain
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coxswain 
1327, from cock "ship's boat" (from O.Fr. coque "canoe") + swain "boy," from O.N. sveinn "boy, servant."
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