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old salt
noun as in jack
noun as in sailor
noun as in sea dog
noun as in seafarer
noun as in seaman/woman
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Expect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say.
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Well, sir,” said the old salt apologetically, “they told me as she were going down.
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The old salt chuckled, and had his eye to the piece immediately.
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He looked on as eagerly as all the strangers, very much as an old salt gazing fixedly out to sea.
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Vernon took the helm, young Tempest the bow oar, and a tough old salt the oar next him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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