Contraband traders on the coast of China; opium boats.
·vt To make smug, or spruce. II. Smug ·adj Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; af...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A nick name for a blacksmith; also neat and spruce. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publica...
Vessels of the Western Isles of Scotland, carrying ten or twelve men. They are extremely sharp fore ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...
Lashings for the secure stowage of boats. (See gripes.) ...
Those stowed on the booms. ...
Those which fished under the encouragement of a bounty from government. ...
See death ...
Vessels or wherries duly licensed for conveying passengers across a river or creek. ...
A local term for boats employed in carrying passengers to and fro from steamers which cannot get alo...
The order to hoist the boats in-board. ...
See masulah boats ...
Madras boats, of which the planks are sewed together with coir yarn, crossing the stitches over a wa...
The order to hoist out the boats. ...
A peculiar Ceylon boat, for the conveyance of rice and other necessaries. ...
Wherries, and the like, which ply in harbours and rivers for the conveyance of passengers. ...
Small boats or wherries plying for hire at sea-ports. ...
Are built with great flatness of floor, with extreme breadth, carried well forward and aft, and poss...
The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits. ...
The seats in the after-part whereon the passengers sit; properly stern-sheets, the others are athwar...
Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box. ...
A narrow strake of board fastened withinside to support the thwarts. ...