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- interj. A cry used to announce that one of the crew has fallen over the side of the vessel
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Examples
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Talking of drag-ropes -- our own, it seems, has this moment knocked a man overboard from one of the small magnetic propellers that swarm in ocean below us -- a boat of about six thousand tons, and, from all accounts, shamefully crowded.
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