These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) "for a lime-juicer."
"Yes, she's a lime-juicer," he remarked, and something like a sigh escaped him.
"I saw it done when I was second mate on a lime-juicer," Captain Ward spoke up.
He had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."
At noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail.
These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) “for a lime-juicer.”
[fr the ration of lime juice given to British sailors as an antiscorbutic; the dated use for the first sense is strictly ''an English immigrant to the Antipodes''; the generalized term probably reflects the US use, ''English sailor or soldier,'' found by 1918]