whip-jack

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Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear -- striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
The whip-jack unbuckled his strap, threw away his timber leg, and "leapt exulting, like the bounding roe."

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
"And a rum 'un he be, take my word for it," returned the whip-jack, or sham sailor.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843