Brewer's: Cringle

(Tom). An excellent sailor character in the naval story by Michael Scott, called Tom Cringle's Log, first published in Blackwood's Magazine.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Cripple
Crimp of Death
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