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peacoat
A thick loose double breasted woolen jacket or coat commonly worn by sailors in cold weather a pea jacket
Memorial Day
30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a
Impressment
public use or of impressing into public service compulsion to serve as the impressment of provisions or of sailors
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Hardtack
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread Called also pilot biscuit pilot bread ship biscuit
doldrums
abounding in calms squalls and light baffling winds which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks so called by sailors
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the
Davy Jones
The spirit of the sea sea devil a term used by sailors
Calenture
given to various fevers occuring in tropics esp to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever among sailors which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field and to throw
bundled up
dressed warmly as bundled up sailors and soldiers
bellbottoms
trousers with legs that flare commonly worn as part of a sailors uniform such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s
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