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Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ choose

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[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. ii: If he don’t stow that bazoo of his, you might ram the end of a handspike in his mouth and see if he’ll bite.
at bazoo, n.1
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: By some means, needless to record here, I found myself, not so many years ago, ‘on the beach’ at Melbourne, in Australia.
at on the beach under beach, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: Well, you infernal beggar, do you mean to say that you’ve passed yourself off as a seaman?
at beggar, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. iii: ‘Do you mean it’s mutiny?’ ‘Lord, no; jest to blandander ye inter tackin’ ship.’.
at blandander, v.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. v: The whole crowd of duff-eaters come layin’ aft as if the skipper of a ship should blow them all off to drinks.
at blow, v.2
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: I saw what ye were when I first raised ye coming along the dock, and sez I, ye’re just my size, my bully.
at bully, n.1
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. xxiv: The first burgoo eater what comes along the weather side o’ the poop while I’m on deck will go over the rail.
at burgoo, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. iii: ’Twould ha’ been no mutiny to override the new skipper, an’ land th’ other in th’ caboose.
at caboose, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. ii: ‘My fine cock,’ said I, ‘if you haven’t a tongue, you probably have ears [etc.]’.
at cock, n.2
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: They wanted me to cough up stuff for the whole crowd. But nary a cough. One or two drinks is about all I can stand.
at cough, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: They wanted me to cough up stuff for the whole crowd. But nary a cough. One or two drinks is about all I can stand.
at cough up, v.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. ix: He was glad enough to ship on a Chilean liner [...] He ware aboard this Dago, puttin’ in, whin he saw th’ Starbuck.
at dago, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: He led me below, where we were joined by the ‘doctor,’ a good-looking negro, who [...] came aft and assumed an importance in keeping with a cook of an American clipper ship.
at doctor, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. x: ‘Well, by hookey, you won’t, then,’ snarled the captain.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: ‘Andrews has the whole of it according to contract.’ ‘But he’s jugged.’.
at jugged, adj.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. xvii n.p.: ‘Jokin’, you lummax!’.
at lummocks, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. vii: May the devil grab me, ye moke, if I wouldn’t rather swell up an’ bust wid th’ scurvy than swallow them fellows kickin’.
at moke, n.1
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. ii: ‘Who are you, you molly-hawk, to give orders aboard here?’ roared Andrews.
at mollyhead (n.) under molly, n.1
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. xiii: I never rips up a sailor for slack jaw aboard the Lord’s special appointed ship.
at rip up (v.) under rip, v.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. iv: There was a distinct smell of liquor in the light breeze, and as the skipper came within the glare of the binnacle lamp I could see he was well set up.
at set-up, adj.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ 57: Of all the slumgullion I ever had stick in my craw, this beats me.
at slumgullion, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. iv: ’Tain’t that. No, split me, it ain’t that.
at split me! (excl.) under split, v.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: How the bleeding thunder could I tell you were Captain Thompson.
at thunder, n.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: I never welsh, sir, [...] and as I signed on, so will I work.
at welch, v.
[US] T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. ix: Th’ way that old gal whanged an’ lammed, an’ lammed an’ whanged.
at whang, v.
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