A seafaring dish made with oat meal and water, seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar.--Falconer's Marine Diet.
·noun A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A seafaring dish made of boiled oatmeal seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar. (See loblolly and ski...
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