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Sailors (shortened from sailors at sea) is London Cockney rhyming slang for tea.
Sailors at sea is London Cockney rhyming slang for tea.
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Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.
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An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.
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A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
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The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
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A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
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To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
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A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
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Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
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A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
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A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
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A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
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To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
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To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
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Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
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A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.
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A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
interj.
Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.
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A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
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A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
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