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A small collection of terms from the 18th - early 20th century that were and probably still are known among sailors.
Admiralty Ham - Royal Navy canned fish
Batten your hatch - shut up
Beachcomber - a good-for-nothing
Cape Horn Fever - feigned illness
Cheeseparer - a cheat
Claw off - to avoid an embarrassing question or argument
Cockbilled - drunk
Cumshaw - small craft - Chinese version of scrimshaw
Dead Marine - empty liquor bottle
Donkey's Breakfast - mattress filled with straw
Dunnage - personal equipment of a sailor
Flying Fish sailor - sailor stationed in Asian waters
Galley yarn - rumour, story
Hog yoke- sextant
Holy Joe - ship's chaplain
Irish hurricane- dead calm
Irish pennant - frayed line or piece of clothing
Jamaican discipline - unruly behaviour
Knock galley west - to knock a person out
Leatherneck - a marine
Limey - a British sailor
Liverpool pennant - a piece of string used to replace a lost button
Loaded to the guards - drunk
Old Man - captain of the ship
One and only - the sailor's best girl
On the beach - ashore without a berth
Pale Ale - drinking water
Quarterdeck voice - the voice of authority
Railroad Pants - uniform trousers with braid on the outer leg seam
Railway tracks - badge of a first lieutenant
Round bottomed chest - sea bag
Schooner on the rocks - roast beef and roast potatoes
Show a leg - rise and shine
Sling it over - pass it to me
Slip his cable - die
Sundowner - unreasonable tough officer
Swallow the anchor - retire
Sweat the glass - shake the hour glass to make the time on watch pass quickly - strictly forbidden !
Tops'l buster - strong gale
Trim the dish - balance the ship so that it sails on an even keel
Turnpike sailor - beggar ashore, a landlubber claiming to be an old sailor in distress
Water bewitched - weak tea
White rat - sailor who curries favor with the officers