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Sailortown 4: Although Sailors [...] did desert in foreign ports [...] they very rarely ‘swallowed the anchor’.at swallow the anchor (v.) under anchor, n.
Sailortown 4: Although Sailors [...] did desert in foreign ports [...] they very rarely ‘swallowed the anchor’. Sailortown 4: The sailor ‘on the beach’ automatically became a ‘beachcomber [...] a John who [...] would disappear among the dives of sailortown [and] hide until his ship sailed.at beachcomber, n.
Sailortown 5: Some ‘beachies’ were good seamen, men [...] activated by a sense of adventure [...] Other beachies were the scum of the earth.at beachcomber, n.
Sailortown 3: The insect-crawling deck-houses of the sandalwood-traders and the blackbirders.at blackbirder, n.
Sailortown 4: A job ashore [...] as chucker-out in some Frisco dance-hall.at chucker-out, n.
Sailortown xxii: May they help the reader to wander round the streets of Fiddler’s Green, and relive, to the fullest, the shore life of that [...] tarry roisterer, Sailor John.at fiddler’s green (n.) under fiddler, n.3
Sailortown 6: A few wooden shacks, mostly grog-shops and dives.at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
Sailortown 4: The sailor ‘on the beach’ automatically became a ‘beachcomber [...] a John who [...] would disappear among the dives of sailortown [and] hide until his ship sailed.at jack, n.5
Sailortown 4: His pride in being a real sailor and not a longshore lumper.at lumper, n.1
(con. 18C-19C) Sailortown 20: The attractions of sex in these [Pacific] islands [...] were to the seamen, far beyond anything even the ‘Spithead nymphs’ could offer.at Spithead nymph (n.) under nymph, n.
Sailortown 5: The scum of the earth, the scourings of the ports of the Seven Seas, plug-ugly deadbeats, lay-abouts, and [...] lousy sailormen.at plug-ugly, adj.
Sailortown 5: Oversleeping, maybe, with some predatory and over-sexed wharf-rat.at wharf-rat, n.
Sailortown 4: Did not the shellback often feel that he would like to become ‘the mate of a fish ’n’ chip cart, with brass knobs and hand-rails’?at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
Sailortown xx: As for the tom-cat habits of the sailorman of old [...] seamen in those days were prone to stay in the blessed state of bachelorhood.at tomcat, n.2
Sailortown 4: Working down hatches, chipping the side , and so on — duties [...] only suitable to longshoremen and cargo wallopers.at walloper, n.1
Sailortown 25: The majority, in all truth, nothing more than prostitutes from the dens and whackhouses of the London waterfront.at whackhouse (n.) under whack, v.1
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