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A Sailor’s Songbag : an American Rebel in an English Prison, 1777-1779 choose

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[US] song in Carey Sailor’s Songbag (1976) 24: And because she denied him a shove on the grass / It's good as his word he got flames to her A—e.
at burn, v.
[US] song in Carey Sailor’s Songbag (1976) 56: Twas early in the morning we spied this proud Mounsear / She being some leagues to windard and down for us did steer.
at mounseer, n.
[US] song in Carey Sailor’s Songbag (1976) 25: Now this old man being pox't said as it is said / He privately pox’t his own Chamber Maid.
at pox, v.
[US] song in Carey Sailor’s Songbag (1976) 32: We’ll call for Licker round boys we’ll pay before we go / For we’ll rore on the shore while the stormy winds do blow.
at roar, v.
[US] song in Carey Sailor’s Songbag (1976) 24: And because she denied him a shove on the grass / It's good as his word he got flames to her A—e.
at shove, n.
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