Definition of "midshipmen" []

• Plural form of midshipman. (noun)

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• ""Why, they took him down to the cock-pit, as they called the midshipmen's berth on the lower deck, where we're going now," replied the Captain, leading the way down the companion and an interminable series of other ladders afterwards, as if they were descending to the kelson, the space getting all the narrower and darker as they went down."
• "Among his midshipmen was the afterwards Admiral Lord Keith."
• "To meet this difficulty there were employed a class of men, usually young and alert, who from their station were called midshipmen, to carry messages which were not subject for the trumpet shout."