Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A terrible fellow.
- noun A kind of artificial bait.
- noun Among sailors, etc., alcoholic spirits of bad quality; a strong raw liquor. See the quotation under rumbullion.
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At our invitation he spent several weeks with us at our camp at Kill Devil
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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