A junior seaman on a ship.
"The Younkers are the young men called Fore-mast men, to take in the Topsayles, or Top and yeard; Furle, and Sling the maine Saile; Bousing or Trysing; and take their turne at Helme."
Capt. John Smith, The accidence or the pathway to experience necessary for all Young Seamen (1626).
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