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Wreck Ashore choose

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[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore II iv: A nice little craft she is.
at craft, n.1
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore I iii: It breaks my heart to see you a-going [...] Drat it, such short notice, too.
at drat, v.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore I iv: I hope the bailiffs have not laid their grappling irons on young Miles.
at grappling iron, n.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore I ii: ’Sdeath! I feel hipp’d and miserable to-day.
at hipped, adj.1
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore II i: You were then but a merry little grig.
at merry grig (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore II i: Take care, young woman, you can’t tell what monkey tricks he may have been up to in foreign parts.
at monkey tricks, n.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore I ii: My pistol is drain’d. (Turning down an empty spirit pistol.).
at pocket pistol (n.) under pocket, n.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore II i: Dance with? with me, to be sure; though I hav’n’t shaken a toe these twenty years.
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore II iv: We must not part company without a salute from these pretty wenches — Eh, my little lass?
at wench, n.
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