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• Sport

  ·noun Play; idle jingle. II. Sport ·noun A sportsman; a gambler. III. Sport ·vt To represent by an...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to sport

  To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to sport

  To exhibit; to make a show of; as, 'Mr. A sported a new carriage yesterday;' 'I shall sport a new co...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Blubber

  ·noun A large sea nettle or medusa. II. Blubber ·noun A <<Bubble>>. III. Blubber ·vt To swell or d...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• blubber

  The mouth.--I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by ga...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blubber

  The layer of fat in whales between the skin and the flesh, which is flinched or peeled off, and boil...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sea-blubber

  ·noun A <<Jellyfish>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• blubber cheeks

  Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blubber-guy

  A large rope stretched from the main to the fore mast head of whalers, to which the speck-falls are ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• peas and sport

  See scadding of peas. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blubber forks and choppers

  The implements with which blubber is "made off," or cut for stowing away. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book