bug

The Sailor's Word-Book

An old term for a vessel more remarkable in size than efficiency.

Thus, when Drake fell upon Cadiz, his sailors regarded the huge galleys opposed to them as mere "great bugges."

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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Boat bug
·- An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; — so called from swimming on its back, whi...

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Croton bug
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Kissing bug
·add. ·- Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip...

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Pinacate bug
·add. ·- Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States. ...

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Sea bug
·- A <<Chiton>>. ...

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Water bug
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to bug
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bug-hunter
An upholsterer. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
june-bug
the green beetle. Kent. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
may-bug
the brown cock-chafer. Kent. ...

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