The several books and registers of stores, provisions, slops, and contingents of a ship or fleet; and they are strictly enjoined to be correct, real, and precise, both in receipt and expenditure.
♦ Account sales, a form of book-keeping in commerce.
To cast up one's accounts; to vomit. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The ship's books and papers for the year. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Sea-sickness. ...
Vomiting. ...