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Jacob Faithful choose

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[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful I 142: Take the helm, while I and Tom put the craft a little into apple pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful II 130: One night he says to me, ‘Will, come up and I’ll show you a devilish fine piece of stuff.’ So I walks with him, and he takes me to a shop where they dealed in marine stores, and we goes and finds your mother in the back parlour.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful II 39: Come along with me; we’ve a nice clink at Wandsworth to lock you up in.
at clink, n.1
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful II 250: How she did flam that poor old Domine!
at flam, v.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful III 82: The tally is right [...] and four greater galoots were never picked up; but never mind that.
at galoot, n.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful 171: ‘Well, I malts,’ said Tom, reaching a pot of porter, and taking a long pull.
at malt, v.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful II 60: It’s some of old Nipcheese’s eighths, that he has sent on shore to bowse his jib up with.
at nipcheese, n.
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful II 50: Well, this has been a pretty turn out.
at turn-out, n.2
[UK] Marryat Jacob Faithful I 208: None of your water bewitched.
at water bewitched (n.) under water, n.1
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