drogher

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Howsoever, matey, it can’t be helped, and you had better up with the port studding-sails, hang out all the rags, and make the old drogher walk.”

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

"A Rimouski drogher on the lookout for a tow."

From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Leyendecker, Frank X.

One of the uniformed sitters waved his hand at us, recognizing an estate drogher, and shouted some directions, of which we only caught the words: "Steps—examination—to-morrow."

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Needham is a prime seaman, and he will have done what was possible to keep the drogher afloat, though they were sadly short-handed, I own.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

After due discussion they hired a drogher, a country vessel employed in running between the surrounding islands and islets.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald