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‘Evening – Regatta Day’ in Salt-Water Ballads 51: D’ye hear, you Port Mahone baboon, I ask you, do you hear?at baboon, n.
‘Evening – Regatta Day’ in Salt-Water Ballads 51: D’ye hear, you Port Mahone baboon, I ask you, do you hear? ‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ in Salt-Water Ballads 19: Loafin’ around in Sailor Town, a-bluin’ o’ my advance.at blew, v.2
‘Fever-Chills’ in Salt-Water Ballads 17: ’N’ they lies quiet in their blushin’ bunks ’n’ mops their gruel down.at blushing, adj.
‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ Salt-Water Ballads 22: I’ll smash yer skulls, so help me James, ’n’ let some wisdom in. [Ibid.] 23: ‘Drink this,’ he says, ’n’ I takes ’n’ drinks, ’n’ s’elp me, it was rum!at s’elp me bob!, excl.
‘Yarn of the Loch Achray’ Salt-Water Ballads 4: And the crew yelled ‘Take our love to Liz— / Three cheers, bullies, for old Pier Head’.at bully, n.1
‘A Night at Dago Tom’s’ in Salt-Water Ballads 38: We scooted south with a press of sail till we fetched to a caboose.at caboose, n.
‘Cape Horn Gospel II’ in Salt-Water Ballads n.p.: Jake was a dirty Dago lad, an’ he gave the skipper chin.at chin, n.2
‘Cape Horn Gospel II’ in Salt-Water Ballads 22: Then the mate came dancin’ on to the scene, ’n’ he says, ‘Now quit yer chin’.at chin, n.2
‘Cape Horn Gospel II’ in Salt-Water Ballads 46: The old contrairy cuss [i.e. ship] / Started a plate, an’ settled an’ sank, an’ that was the end of us.at cuss, n.1
‘A Night at Dago Tom’s’ in Salt-Water Ballads 38: We scooted south with a press of sail till we fetched to a caboose, / The ‘Sailor’s Rest,’ by Dago Tom, alongside ‘Paddy’s Goose.’.at dago, n.
‘Sing a Song o’Shipwreck’ in Salt-Water Ballads 7: ’N’ moans about love like a dern old hen wi’ the pip.at darn, adj.
‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ in Salt-Water Ballads 20: Our boats were bashed and bust and broke and gone to Davy Jones.at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
‘A Ballad of Cape Vincent’ in Salt-Water Ballads 66: Now, Bill, ain’t it prime to be a-sailin’ [...] Dossin’ snug aneath the weather-railin’.at doss, v.
‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ Salt-Water Ballads 10: So I says ‘Dry up, or I’ll fetch you a crack o’ the head.’.at dry up, v.
‘Cape Horn Gospel II’ in Salt-Water Ballads 47: I’m bound for home in the Oronook in a suit of looted duds.at duds, n.1
‘Sing a Song o’Shipwreck’ in Salt-Water Ballads 10: So I says ‘Dry up, or I’ll fetch you a crack o’ the head.’.at fetch, v.2
‘The Yarn of the Loch Achray’ in Salt-Water Ballads 6: I’ll just [...] buy the fixins ’n’ cook the meats.at fixings, n.1
‘A Night at Dago Tom’s’ in Salt-Water Ballads 38: We scooted south with a press of sail till we fetched to a caboose, / The ‘Sailor’s Rest,’ by Dago Tom, alongside ‘Paddy’s Goose.’.at Paddy’s Goose, n.
‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ Salt-Water Ballads 22: If ye wish to save yer sickly hides, ye’d best contrive a raft.at hide, n.
‘A Night at Dago Tom’s’ in Salt-Water Ballads 39: ’N’ we linked it home, did Bill ’n’ I, adown the scattered streets.at link it, v.
‘Evening-Regatta Day’ in Salt-Water Ballads 50: You’re the juggins who caught a crab and lost the ship the Cup.at juggins, n.
‘Mother Carey’ in Salt-Water Ballads 49: You’re young, you thinks, ’n’ you’re lairy.at lairy, adj.
‘Fever-Chills’ Salt-Water Ballads 18: Come none o’ your Cape Horn fever lays aboard o’ this yer ship.at lay, n.3
‘Fever-Chills’ in Salt-Water Ballads 17: ‘I’ve a lick of fever-chills,’ he said.at lick, n.1
‘A Valediction’ in Salt-Water Ballads 37: Well, so-long, Billy, ’n’ a spankin’ heavy pay-day to you!at so long, phr.
‘Burial-Party’ in Salt-Water Ballads 11: It’s a rummy rig of a guffy’s yarn.at rig, n.2
‘Mother Carey’ in Salt-Water Ballads 48: Mother Carey? She’s the mother o’ the witches / ‘N’ all them sort o’ rips.at rip, n.1
‘Bill’ Salt-Water Ballads 14: ’N’, rot ye, get a gait on ye, ye’re slower ’n’ a bloody snail!at rot you! (excl.) under rot!, excl.1
‘Sing a Song o’ Shipwreck’ in Salt-Water Ballads 7: A packet o’ Sailor’s Delight as I scoffed in the seas o’ the Horn.at scoff, v.
‘One of the Bosun’s Yarns’ Salt-Water Ballads 23: You’ve had a shave, if you wish to know, from the port of Kingdom Come.at shave, n.
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