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[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 77: But avast! [...] here’s a key that’ll fit, I guess.
at avast!, excl.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 145: Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner.
at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 20: What sort of bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?
at bamboozle, v.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 150: Hist, boys! lets have a jig or two before we ride to anchor in Blanket Bay.
at Blanket Bay, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 150: Eight bells there! d’ye hear, bell-boy? Strike the bell eight, thou Pip!
at bell, n.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 72: Why, blast your eyes, Bildad.
at blast someone’s eyes! (excl.) under blast, v.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 113: And I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
at blazing, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 481: The white whale’s – no, no, no, – blistered fool!
at blistered, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 308: ‘Don’t be afraid, my butter-boxes,’ cried Stubb.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 218: ‘Canallers!’ cried Don [...] ‘who and what are they?’ ‘Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our Grand Erie Canal.’.
at canaller, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 435: Those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a’ block with sperm oil, d’ye see.
at chockablock, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick 73: What’s that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?
at chowder-headed (adj.) under chowder-head, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 223: But all these were collared, and dragged along the deck like dead cattle.
at collar, v.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 350: I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery.
at crappo, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 215: Damn your eyes! what’s that pump stopping for?
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] H. Melville Moby Dick (1907) 258: Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can.
at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 82: He shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of afterclaps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
at go to Davy Jones’s locker (v.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 306: The ungracious and ungrateful dog!
at dog, n.2
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 86: I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not.
at dog, v.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 405: Drat the file, and drat the bone! This is hard which should be soft, and that is soft which should be hard.
at drat, v.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 25: Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnought, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets.
at dreadnought, n.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 306: ‘The unmannerly Dutch dogger!’ cried Stubb.
at Dutch, adj.2
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 83: With all three masts making such an everlasting thundering against the side.
at everlasting, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 150: Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that.
at fat, adj.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 257: But by Gor! you must stop dat dam racket!
at gor!, excl.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 81: By the great anchor, what a harpoon he’s got there!
at by the great horn spoon! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 25: Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnought, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets.
at grego, n.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 78: There sat Queequeg, altogether cool and self-collected; right in the middle of the room; squatting on his hams.
at ham, n.1
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 380: I jumped into my first mate’s boat [...] and snatching the first harpoon, let this old great-grandfather have it.
at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
[US] Melville Moby Dick (1907) 33: Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those straps in the first howling gale!
at hayseed, n.
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