Author: Pierre, C. Grand,
Title: Systematic Dictionary of Sea Terms.
Description: NY, Greenwich Village Review, (1928). VG PB. Nip cheese - the purser, because of his inclination to affect better table manners. Tan stiff card binding, silver & brown. lettering. Edge wear, spot on last page, some pieces of endpapers adhering to the binding back. Hero - the wireless operator, because in a disaster, his name, next to that of the master, figures most prominently in newspaper stories. Dead float - in steamers, greatest transverse section: in sailers, the term is midship b end. On her beams end - said of a vessel or anything prostrated on edges: reminiscent of the time when, to permit scraping of bottoms, ships were careened on the shore. Round Robin, pancake sailors desired so light that it could fly like a robin. The name passed to a collective complaint, each man signing round a circle, so that no one should appear to have signed first. Slushy - the cook's mte, derived from slush the fat of salt pork dumped as worthless.

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