[ noun ] a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage <noun.person>
Stowaway \Stow"a*way`\, n. One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
Sinbad began his military career as a stowaway, smuggled aboard by a Coast Guardsman.
Police in Hanover originally thought the stowaway may have been an 11-year-old boy reported missing on Thursday.
In 1988, an Irish stowaway was discovered aboard the ship as it made its way back from Ireland.
Officials refused to release the name of the stowaway, who was met by immigration officials when the tanker docked at the Mobil Oil Co. terminal Monday.
A stowaway cat from Baltimore survived a two-week journey by land and sea from the United States without food or water _ only to be killed when it arrived in Britain because of strict quarantine laws, an official said Tuesday.