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[UK] Marryat Japhet 255: ‘May your honour never know a banyan day,’ replied the sailor.
at Banyan day, n.
[UK] Marryat Japhet 38: After a little delay, the waggoner drove off, cursing him for a bilk, and vowing that he’d never have anything more to do with a ‘larned man’.
at bilk, n.
[UK] Marryat Japhet 256: Is it possible Japhet [...] that I find you a broad-brimmed Quaker?
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[UK] Marryat Japhet 17: Timothy put on his hat, cocked his eye at me, and left us alone.
at cock one’s eye (v.) under cock, v.4
[UK] Marryat Japhet 12: Sure enough, it cured me, but wasn’t I quite kilt before I was cured.
at kilt, adj.
[UK] Marryat Japhet 225: That is the other fellow who attacked me, and ran away. He has come to get off his accomplice, and now we’ve just nicked them both.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Marryat Japhet 8: Sometimes I carry on my rigs a little too far.
at rig, n.2
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