A rather hyperbolic phrase for a sailor's overhauling his ditty-bag at a leisure moment, and restowing his little hoard.
·noun That which pleases; a favor; a gratification. II. Pleasure ·vi To take pleasure; to seek purs...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Rascals who go about dressed as sailors pretending that they have been shipwrecked, and soliciting c...
A prostitute. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose