bosun's chair

Questions about bosun's chair

What is another word for bosun's chair?

It depends which bosun's chair you mean. In the sense “a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship”, the synonyms are boatswain's chair. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bosun's chair?

WordNet records no antonym for bosun's chair. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bosun's chair come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bosun's chair

• Full entry for bosun's chairAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bosun's chairWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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