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Stowaway

noun
1.
A person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage.






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"Stowaway" Quotes from Famous Books



... stowaway cat down there?" murmured Laurence, with a little shudder. "It would have been more humane to have put the misguided ...
— The Sign of the Spider • Bertram Mitford

... garlands of marigold about his neck until his eyes and the bridge of his nose were the only features visible. The first-class passengers came down with car loads of trunks and bags and bundles, which, to avoid the charge for extra luggage, they endeavored to stowaway in their compartments. The third-class carriages were packed like sardines with natives, and up to the limit allowed by law, for, painted in big white letters, where every passenger and every observer ...
— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis

... honour," answered the boatswain, giving Clare a shove, "this here's a stowaway in his majesty's ship, Panther. I found him snug in the cable-tier.—Salute the captain, ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald

... last voyage across the ocean, which was on the Dutch liner Rotterdam, I went into the fo'castle one day to talk to a stowaway, a simple young East Prussian lad, who had gone to sea and had found himself in the United States ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... stowaway in the Archimandrite's cutter. A French spy when he's at home, I fancy. What do you ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Stowaway" :   rider, passenger, stow away



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