Brewer's: Skylark

among sailors, is to mount the highest yards (called sky-scrapers), and then slide down the ropes for amusement. (See Lark.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Slander, Offence
Skylark
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