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- noun US Navy slang for the storekeeper in charge of dry foodstuffs.
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This was more or less a perfunctory order, since every man from the jack-of-the-dust to the captain was already on deck.
For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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