swabber

No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer.

He didn't ask what a swabber was, but he felt uneasy.

"We all have, from the captain to the swabber, from the eldest child on down.

"I warn you now," he screeched at the swabber class, "you've got a lot to learn.

They had been missed a little before dawn, when a swabber of the afterguard saw the stern-windows wide open.

Her firm, high voice and her air of arrogant command, when they had been in the swabber class at Greenpeak.

Other offices proved less pleasant: thus one sailor served as the "swabber," responsible for the ship's cleanliness within board, while another was the "liar."

He is the lying'st swabber!

Jack was over the shattered bulwark straight down on to a hot gun run in and smoking, and its swabber thrust at him with the pole.

A pilot who cant figure that out in five minutes, when we use the same basic design, should be broken down to galley swabber and set to peeling electrons.

He cut sideways at the swabber's head; the swabber ducked fast and Jack leapt over his bowed shoulder onto the Cacafuego's deck.

"The Master, The Swabber" is a drinking song sung by Trinculo and Stephano.

"You know I've always loved you, Keth, ever since I first saw you in the swabber class at Greenpeak.

"The flowers ... the bullock carts and the wine ..." "And even the swabber of decks."

A loader of supplies in every port, a swabber of decks, repairer of ropes-with the hemp-torn flesh to prove that- he did not mind the fee.

Once at the pole, though Nielsen functioned not only as doctor but as nurse, orderly and floor swabber in her small clinic, she quickly found herself at one with the ice.

If so, he was not entirely successful in his corruption: Puritan authorities raided the Red Bull in June 1653 looking for unauthorized drama, and found Cox, playing Swabber.

Not ten minutes after the swabber had removed all traces of the scene, Babbington was flying about the upper rigging in pursuit of Ricketts, with the clerk toiling with laborious, careful delight a great way behind.

A woman, grown too old for the oldest profession in which she once held a premier position, who fancies herself a seer of sorts and who works as a swabber at the village tavern, occasionally sleeps on the floor of the building.

He speaks of an Englishman "like some swabber of a ship, come from the Indies, where he has learned to eat fire as familiarly as ever I saw any eat cakes, even whole glowing brands, which he will crush with his teeth and swallow."