[f. CABIN sb. 5 + BOY.] A boy who waits on the officers and passengers on board.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xiii. 67. I was sent to Oxford, scholar of a college, and my elder brother a cabbin boy to the West-Indies.
1773. Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 467. Every soul on board perished, except the cabbin-boy.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. iii. 305. Sir Christopher Mings … entered the service as a cabin boy…. His cabin boy was Sir John Narborough; and the cabin boy of Sir John Narborough was Sir Cloudesley Shovel.
