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Ben Brace (3 edn) 8: [of a sailor] We never were king’s hard bargains - fellows with short hair and long teeth, who [...] wonder why they don’t make prize money.at His Majesty’s bad bargain, n.
Ben Brace (3 edn) 8: [of a sailor] We never were king’s hard bargains - fellows with short hair and long teeth, who [...] wonder why they don’t make prize money. Ben Brace (3 edn) 6: It was sove ki poo, as the Crapauds say.at crappo, n.
Ben Brace (3 edn) 2: My larboard bow ‘lookout’ gets a little dim with draning a glass or two.at lookout, n.
Ben Brace (3 edn) 11: Captain Surridge [...] kept his hawk’s eye upon all skulkers.at skulker, n.
Ben Brace (1840) 303: ‘I don’t remember you.’ ‘Nor I you in that three-cornered Portuguese man-of- war-looking skull-thatcher’.at skull-thatcher (n.) under skull, n.1
Ben Brace (3 edn) 3: I was as good a looking a fellow as ever [...] sucked a monkey† at Barbadoes [note] † Drinking rum out of a cocoa-nut, the milk being drawn off and the spirit substituted.at suck the monkey (v.) under suck, v.1
Ben Brace 253: Therefore, coming Captain Grand over him, I said, ‘Here, my good fellow, as you may on your arrival be very busy with the other passengers and your cargo’ [etc.].at Captain Grand (n.) under captain, n.
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