Rascals who go about dressed as sailors pretending that they have been shipwrecked, and soliciting charity.
·noun A turnpike road. II. Turnpike ·noun A winding stairway. III. Turnpike ·noun A beam filled wi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A parson; because the clergy collect their tolls at our entrance into and exit from the world. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A rather hyperbolic phrase for a sailor's overhauling his ditty-bag at a leisure moment, and restowi...