lime-juicer

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And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.

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  1. A British sailor: so called because he is obliged by law to use lime-juice at sea as an antiscorbutic. [Amer. naut. slang.] You lime-juicers have found that Richmond is taken. International Rev., XI. 525.
  2. Hence A British ship on which the lime-juice law is carried out. The working of the ship, the life of the men, their trials and amusements are all combined in the story; in fact, the book gives a better idea of the life on a “lime-juicer” than any previous work we have seen. Forest and Stream, Feb. 21, 1903, p. 153.
  3. In Australia, a new-comer; one who has made the voyage on a lime-juicer; a greenhorn; a ‘new chum.’

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