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The Sea Wolf choose

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[US] J. London Sea Wolf 140: No shipping masters or beach combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.
at beachcomber, n.
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 286: ‘Perhaps, if I were to step boldly ashore, they [i.e. seals] would cut for it, and I could not catch up with one’.
at cut for it (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 161: [of a ship] ‘We’ve made at least ten knots, and we’re going twelve or thirteen now. The old girl knows how to walk’.
at old gal, n.
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 230: ‘Come on board and have a ‘gam’!’ ‘To gam,’ among the sealing schooners, is a substitute for the verbs ‘to visit,’ ‘to gossip’.
at gam, v.1
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 140: ‘You make me tired! A nice lot of gazabas you are!’ .
at gazabo, n.1
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 237: ‘We’ll make it, I think; but you can depend upon it that blessed brother of mine [...] is just a-humping for us’.
at hump, v.1
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 304: Hunters went back on me. He gave them a bigger lay. Heard him offering it.
at lay, n.4
[US] J. London Sea Wolf 59: ‘’Tis a fine chap, that squarehead Johnson we’ve for’ard with us.’ he said, ‘The best sailorman in the fo’c’sle’.
at squarehead, n.2
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