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If it's any help to the physicists, I can even describe what the Higgs bosun looked like.
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Bosun Bill, also known as Bill Rase, became good friends with Martin.
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If a woman, or anyone, could prove the existence of the Higgs-bosun, it would indeed be fantastic.
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Rossen also split the novel's idealist hero into an intellectual bosun and a rebellious seaman.
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Might it have been a Higgs bosun who went sailing by?
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Used for greasing parts of the running rigging of the ship and therefore valuable to the master and bosun.
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A bosun must be highly skilled in all matters of marlinespike seamanship required for working on deck of a seagoing vessel.
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A single newt or an orchid can be enough to put the kibosh on a multi-million-pound motorway, so think what the discovery of the elusive Higgs bosun might do to the incinerator project.
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- Boatswain: a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
- A boatswain (formerly and dialectically also), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun is an unlicensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The boatswain supervises the other unlicensed members of the ship's deck department, and typically is not a watchstander, except on vessels with small crews. ...
- The Bosun is a 14 foot GRP sailing dinghy originally created for the Royal Navy by designer Ian Proctor and built by Bossoms Boatyard in 1963. ...
- A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship
- Also boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, and bo'sun, all of which are pronounced bosun. A crew member responsible for keeping the hull, rigging and sails in repair.
- Alternate spelling of boatswain; ship s husband; an officer on a ship responsible for hull maintenance and other related work
- A member of the crew who is in charge of keeping the rigging and sails in good repair.
