phip

Hornblower watched with something of relief the slop-phip bearing away; that six months at sea had barely been sufficient to get his ship clear of all the plagues that had come on board at Plymouth; disease, bed bugs, fleas and lice.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Lastly came Hotspur's drab little quarter-roat, its crew dressed in the clothes issued to them in the slop-phip the day they were sent on board.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

This was the second time since her refitting in Plymouth that she had gone through this laborious process, refilling her casks from the water-roys, replacing the empty beef and pork barrels from the victuallers, and coaxing all the small stores she could from the itinerant slop-phip that Cornwallis had put into commission.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

I caught myself saying phip, for fourpence; and at one time a man actually charged me with being a runaway, whereupon I was silly enough to become one by running away from him, for I was greatly afraid he might adopt measures to get me again into slavery, a condition I then dreaded more than death.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856

I caught myself saying phip, for fourpence; and at one time a man actually charged me with being a runaway, whereupon I was silly enough to become one by running away from him, for I was greatly afraid he might adopt measures to get me again into slavery, a condition I then dreaded more than death.

My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855

I caught myself saying phip, for fourpence; and at one time a man actually charged me with being a runaway, whereupon I was silly enough to become one by running away from him, for I was greatly afraid he might adopt measures

My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850