What is 2. (Navy) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army called?
commander — 2. (Navy) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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