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Melville Log: a documentary life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891 choose

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[US] in J. Leyda Melville Log (1951) 92: At half-past one we resumed work; and finally knocked off at four o’clock.
at knock off, v.
[US] in J. Leyda Melville Log (1951) 115: ‘Pull, pull, you lubberly hay-makers!’ cries the boat-header [...] ‘Pull, pull, I say; break your lazy backs!’ Presently the whale is within ‘darting distance’.
at haymaker, n.1
[US] in J. Leyda Melville Log (1951) 281: There was also a diminutive young ‘oui oui’ tumbling about the floor.
at wee-wee, n.1
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