drogher
a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.
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How to use drogher in a sentence
After due discussion they hired a drogher, a country vessel employed in running between the surrounding islands and islets.
The Three Lieutenants | W.H.G. KingstonAway flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.
The Three Lieutenants | W.H.G. KingstonThey, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.
The Three Lieutenants | W.H.G. KingstonHigson made a leap into the boat, which shoved off just as the drogher, giving a slight roll, sank from sight.
The Three Lieutenants | W.H.G. KingstonIt proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.
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