cabin boy:
(also called ‘ship’s boy’ or in present usage ‘cabin steward‘; plural: ‘cabin boys‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
modern day cabin boy
a young man-servant on a ship, serving drinks or doing chores for the officers or passengers on a ship,
In the past, cabin boys were the young men kidnapped by the pirates or those young men who ran away from their homes to become sailors, and they did all the hard odd jobs on a ship — cleaning cabins (rooms), serving drinks and food, climbing up the masts, etc.
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