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bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
crook your elbow
To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sluice your gob
Take a hearty drink. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
blind-your-eyes
n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
keep your luff
An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

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top your boom
See boom. ...

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lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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lay or lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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toss in your oars!
The order to desist rowing, and throw the oars in out of the rowlocks. ...

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lend us your pound here!
A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...

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