Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disbursing agent of the United States navy.
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When he had finished, Mr Small commenced, "You see my man, you ask me to do what no navy-agent ever did before -- to lend upon a promise to pay, and that promise to pay from a midshipman.
The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook Frederick Marryat 1820
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