scuttled-butt

• Each of these jobs must be finished before breakfast; and in the mean time the rest of the crew filled the scuttled-butt, and the cook scraped his kids (wooden tubs out of which sailors eat), and polished the hoops, and placed them before the galley to await inspection. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• Every man who has been three months at sea knows how to "work Tom Cox's traverse" -- "three turns round the long-boat, and a pull at the scuttled-butt." —  Two Years Before the Mast

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