whipjack

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  1. A vagabond who begs for alms as a distressed seaman: hence a general term of reproach or contempt. A mere whip-jack, and that is, in the commonwealth of rogues, a slave that can talk of sea-fight, … yet indeed all his service is by land, and that is to rob a fair, or some such venturous exploit. Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, v. 1. Albeit one Boner (a bare whippe Jacke) for lucre of money toke vpon him to be thy father, and than to mary thy mother, yet thou wast persone Savage's bastarde. Bp. Ponet (Maitland on Reformation, p. 74). (Davies.)

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