drogher

Example Sentences

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The port fell; the drogher went on bumping alongside, completely disregarded.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Unlike penguins and human beings, army ants have no rule of the road as to right and left, and there is no lessening of pace or turning aside for a heavily laden drogher.

From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William

If that is not Desmond I’m a Dutchman, and the man sitting just abaft the stroke-oar is Dick Needham, who went with the youngsters in the drogher.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

Our motto in the little drogher yonder is to keep her afloat with the least possible bother to ourselves.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

It struck me, indeed, that she was the same wicked-looking vessel I had seen come into English Harbour the day we sailed in the drogher.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald