(A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
A friend; a mate.
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.