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Tarpaulin :: Tarpaulin (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others..

Roundabout :: Roundabout (n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc..

Portage :: Portage (n.) A sailor's wages when in port.

Trick :: Trick (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours..

Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) 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..

Davy Jones :: Davy Jones () The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.

Blackstrap :: Blackstrap (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

Shipman :: Shipman (n.) A seaman, or sailor..

Impressment :: Impressment (n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors..

Ditty-bag :: Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife..

Kid :: Kid (n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.

Tar :: Tar (n.) A sailor; a seaman.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm..

Garland :: Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

Argonauta :: Argonauta (n.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Hogfish :: Hogfish (n.) The pigfish or sailor's choice.

Lascar :: Lascar (n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower..

So :: So (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.

Call :: Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty..

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