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Brewer's: Petrel
The stormy petrel. So named, according to tradition, from the Italian Petrello (little Peter), in allusion to St. Peter, who walked on the sea. Our sailors call them “Mother Carey's…Brewer's: Roper
Margaret Roper was buried with the head of her father, Sir Thomas More, in her arms. Her, who clasped in her last trance Her murdered father's head. Tennyson. Mistress Roper. A cant name…Brewer's: Tommy Atkins
(A). A British soldier, as a Jack Tar is a British sailor. The term arose from the little pocket ledgers served out, at one time, to all British soldiers. In these manuals were to be…Brewer's: Soldiers of Fortune
Chevaliers de l'industrie; men who live by their wits. Referring to those men in mediæval times who let themselves for hire into any army. “His father was a soldier of fortune, as I am a…Brewer's: Splice
To marry. Very strangely, “splice” means to split or divide. The way it came to signify unite is this: Ropes' ends are first untwisted before the strands are interwoven. Joining two ropes…Brewer's: Tapu
among the South Sea Islanders, means “devoted” in a religious sense. Thus, a temple is tapu, and he who violates a temple is tapu. Not only so, but everyone and everything connected with…Brewer's: Tarpaulins
or Tars. Sailors, more frequently called Jack Tars. Tarpaulins are tarred cloths used commonly on board ship to keep articles from the sea-spray, etc. The more correct spelling is tar-…Brewer's: Shanty Songs
Songs sung by sailors at work, to ensure united action. They are in sets, each of which has a different cadence adapted to the work in hand. Thus, in sheeting topsails, weighing anchor,…Brewer's: Weller
(Sam). Pickwick's factotum. His wit, fidelity, archness, and wide-awakedness are inimitable. (Dickens Pickwick Papers.) Tony Weller. Father of…Brewer's: Fair Trade
Smuggling. “Neither Dirk Hatteraick nor any of his sailors, all well known men in the fair trade, were again seen upon that coast.” —SirWalterScott: Guy Mannering, chap. x. Latterly the…Trending
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