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I was shanghaied into one of their lime-juicers once, an 'I never forgot it!
The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real Laura Lee Hope
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The disease of scurvy and its prevention by use of orange juice potatoes, etc., was a well known phenomenon and to the curative powers of lime juice we owe the name "lime-juicers" as a synonym for the British merchant marine.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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Captain Elisha, as a free-born Yankee skipper, had an inherited and cherished contempt for British "lime-juicers," but he could not help admiring this one.
Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Cook's day, and which down to our own times has caused all British sailors to be popularly known as "lime-juicers" in the American Navy.
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903
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There's every chance of our coming out top hole, as those lime-juicers say, with oodles of dough and a whole skin. "
The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901
Gammerstang commented on the word lime-juicers
(pl. noun) - A nickname current among seafaring men for the sailors of the British merchant marines. Now limey.
--Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889
January 16, 2018