drogher
Example Sentences
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The same afternoon the adventurers got back to their drogher, the overseer having liberally supplied them with as much venison and fish as they could possibly consume.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
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 H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
The port fell; the drogher went on bumping alongside, completely disregarded.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
Then the drogher, getting herself clear, would proceed innocently to the custom-house steps, where all such coasters had to report themselves on arrival.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
