To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
To act as captain
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
A chief or leader.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
The leader of a group of workers.
To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
To haul ass (“go fast”).
To drag, to pull, to tug.
Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
To draw or pull something heavy.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
Four goals scored by one player in a game.
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.