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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A querulous or captious sailor, disposed to criticize orders rather than to obey them; one who is always arguing about his work, and making trouble.
- noun The gray or mangrove snapper. See
snapper . - noun A shark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) The gray snapper. See under
snapper .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical, slang A
shark .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an argumentative and contentious seaman
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