swabber

How to use swabber in a sentence

• I'm afraid the sea is too cold for me this morning, Mr. Swabber.

  Mr. Punch at the Seaside|Various

• There was no place on board for a 'waister,' a 'swabber,' longshoreman, or sea labourer.

  Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone

• Under the swabber there was a temporary rate known as the liar.

  On the Spanish Main|John Masefield

• For the duty even of a swabber, he does not consider himself too high, but washes the deck most delicately clean.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847|Various