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chained_bear I know! Only this one's real! Oct 13, 2008
reesetee Almost as good as gluppit the prawling strangles. :-) Oct 13, 2008
chained_bear "To Bagpipe the mizen, is to lay it aback, by bringing the sheet to the mizen shrouds."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 29
See also baffding (the above text appears under that entry). Oct 11, 2008