cawbeens

"Be jabers, I fale like a cat on a hot griddle," said Pat Doolan, as he danced in and out of the galley, engaged in certain cooking operations on a large scale which the skipper had ordered; "I'll soon have no sowl at all, at all, to me cawbeens!"

On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874

Ould Jock Gillespie ain't the sort av skipper to lit the grass grow under his cawbeens, whin he says his ship forninst him! "

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874