mudlarker

A mudlarker was a man who had an old boat, generally sold by some merchant vessel, furnished with an iron bar full of hooks, which was lowered down by a rope to catch pieces of cordage, oakum, canvas or other articles, which might fall overboard from the numerous vessels in the river; these were sold to the marine stores, such as were kept by old Nanny.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

A mudlarker was a man who had an old boat, generally sold by some merchant vessel, furnished with an iron bar full of hooks, which was lowered down by a rope to catch pieces of cordage, oakum, canvas or other articles, which might fall overboard from the numerous vessels in the river; these were sold to the marine stores, such as were kept by old Nanny.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

I have said in a former chapter that I was a regular _mudlarker_.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

I have said in a former chapter that I was a regular _mudlarker_.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

As a casual mudlarker, I was allowed an "eyes only" search.

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I'm too old now; I was a flash pirate once, but I'm now nearly eighty, and am only fit for a mudlarker. "

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

I'm too old now; I was a flash pirate once, but I'm now nearly eighty, and am only fit for a mudlarker. "

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820