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[US] N.Y. Daily Times 15 Mar. 3: Quite an excitement was created here before she sailed by a rumored attempt to Shanghai the Captain of the British bark Cashmere, of Liverpool, to serve on the Queen as a common sailor.
at shanghai, v.
[US] N.Y. Daily Times 4 Apr. 8/3: [headline] A Jew Drummer before Judge Pearcey.
at drummer, n.3
[US] N.Y. Daily Times 24 July 5: The whole voyage is a repetition of abuses, for which they [i.e. men persuaded by ‘shanghais’ to pose as sailors for money] have no one to blame but themselves in the first instance, and next the Shanghai’s.
at shanghai, n.1
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