bosun's chair

1. 1.

   a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship

   Synonymsboatswain's chair

   Broaderseat

Questions about bosun's chair

What does bosun's chair mean?

bosun's chair means "a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship".

What is another word for bosun's chair?

Close synonyms include boatswain's chair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bosun's chair a common word?

bosun's chair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.