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The King’s Own choose

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[UK] Marryat King’s Own 349: Now, you’re bamming me – don’t attempt to put such stories off on your old granny.
at bam, v.1
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 94: Our first lieutenant was in his cot, on his beam ends with the rheumatiz.
at beam-ends, n.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 112: His mother [...] had arrived to the dignity of bumboat woman.
at bum-boat, n.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 92: The master fires first, and hits the cat a clip on the neck.
at clip, n.2
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 113: He always carried in his pocket a colt (i.e. a foot and a half of rope, knotted at one end, and whipped at the other), for the benefit of the youngsters, to whom he was a most inordinate tyrant.
at colt, n.2
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 322: If you don’t clap a stopper on that jaw of yours, by George, we’ll cobb you.’ ‘Cobb me! — you will, will you? [...] I dare you to cobb me, you wretches!’.
at cop, v.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own (1850) 343: Captain Hall [...] has [...] done North and South America .
at do, v.2
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 148: I had indeed intended to quit him, as he was done up.
at done up, adj.1
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 277: ‘Here’s to the Emerald Isle.’ ‘And here’s to the Land of Cakes,’ cried Stewart.
at land o’ cakes (n.) under land, n.3
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 216: The master requested a glass of grog, as the rot-gut French wines had given him a pain in the bowels.
at rotgut, adj.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 181: I’m cursedly inclined to shoot the cat.
at shoot the cat (v.) under shoot, v.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own I 305: By Jove, you’d better skip for it, or you’ll have what Captain M. says.
at skip, v.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 113: His greatest pride and his constant study was ‘slang’.
at slang, n.1
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 131: Tell Mr. Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes.
at slops, n.1
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 322: I’ll write the ten commandments on your face, I will.
at ten commandments (n.) under ten, adj.
[UK] Marryat King’s Own II 152: When I landed at Porstmouth, I retained a suit of ‘long togs,’ as we call them.
at long tog (n.) under tog, n.
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