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or money boats.
So termed from the risk in such frail craft. They were very long, very narrow, and as thin as the skiffs of our rivers. During the war of 1800-14 they carried gold between Dover and Calais, and defied the custom-house officers.
To be death for, or go one's death for a thing, is to be in favor of it or pursue it to the last ext...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.