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Sailors and Saints choose

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[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors and Saints I p.185 in DSUE (1984).
at come the blarney (over) under blarney, n.1
[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I 22: See her sticks [i.e. masts], how they stand - stayed to an affygraphy [...] as square as a die.
at affygraphy, n.
[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I 15: The commodore, by all that’s blue.
at by all that’s blue! (excl.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I 16: D--n it, this is the devil’s own take-in.
at take-in, n.
[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I 19: In my time, Nipcheese qould have it considered it as good as a re-capture to have had such an opportunity.
at nipcheese, n.
[UK] W.N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I 23: A pair o’ your reg’lar-built, parlee-voo hop-kickers.
at parleyvoo, adj.
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