Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer of the custom-house who boards ships on their arrival in port in order to examine their papers and to prevent smuggling.
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Examples
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The boarding-officer turned and ordered all the male prisoners to separate themselves from the ladies.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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The boarding-officer clambered over the bulwarks of the "Drake," and, veteran naval officer as he was, started in amazement at the scene of bloodshed before him.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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Perry responded in the same words with which he had answered the boarding-officer.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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_Saratoga's_ boarding-officer passed along the deck of the _Confiance_ he accidentally ran against a lock-string of one of her starboard guns, [Footnote: A sufficient commentary, by the way, on James 'assertion that the guns of the _Confiance_ had to be fired by matches, as the gun-locks did not fit!] and it went off.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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He hoped to escape observation, but the Confederate boarding-officer had been a classmate of his, and spotted him at once.
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Confederate waited, as the light wind from the south bore the stranger towards them; their patience, too, was rewarded, for at 6 A.M., a boarding-officer stepped on board the ship John S. Parks, of Hallowall,
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Raphael Semmes 1843
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The master of this vessel informed the boarding-officer that a United States man-of-war, supposed to be the
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Raphael Semmes 1843
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Ireland, and this was their general rule of conduct; -- they would forcibly board our vessels, and the boarding-officer, who was commonly
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