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Two years and a half in the American navy choose

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[US] E.C. Wines Two Years and a Half in Navy I 101: A number of bomb-boats [sic] were allowed to come off to supply with fresh grub and soft tack such of the ship’s messes as had the means of purchasing them.
at bum-boat, n.
[US] E.C. Wines Two Years and a Half in Navy I 101: These Degos [sic], as they are pleasantly called by our people, were a great pest.
at dago, n.
[US] E.C. Wines Two Years and a Half in Navy I 214: The poor fellow made a desperate struggle for a divorce, but the court decided that he must keep his ‘rib,’ hips or no hips.
at rib, n.1
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