lime-juicer
[ lahym-joo-ser ]
nounOlder Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.
a British sailor.
a British person.
Origin of lime-juicer
1First recorded in 1855–60; so called because British sailors were required by law to drink lime juice to ward off scurvy
usage note For lime-juicer
See limey.
Words Nearby lime-juicer
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How to use lime-juicer in a sentence
These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) “for a lime-juicer.”
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonHe had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."
The Road | Jack LondonAt noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore | Jack LondonAnd we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore | Jack LondonThese were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) "for a lime-juicer."
The Wrecker | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
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