lime-juicer

[ lahym-joo-ser ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Older Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.

First recorded in 1855–60; so called because British sailors were required by law to drink lime juice to ward off scurvy

These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) “for a lime-juicer.”

He had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."

At noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail.

And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.

These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) "for a lime-juicer."

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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