Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sailors' punch composed of wine, water, and brandy.
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Examples
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It's all very well for you others to join in your chorus about jolly sailor boys sitting up aloft, but what about poor me sitting all the time in a cold hipsy bath, as they calls it in hospitals, expecting every moment to feel the young crocs a-tackling my toes?
The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise George Manville Fenn 1870
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