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'I'm goin' to get 'er 'ome
For Christmas,' said the skipper
O' the clipper
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Cicely Fox Smith
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Freddie Headey 14 November 2017

I'm curious about some of the terms. I was struggling to find to'gal'ntsail. wilki has this though On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail (topgallant alone pronounced t'gallant, topgallant sail pronounced t'garns'l) is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above the topsail or topsails. It is also known as a gallant or garrant sail. ~~~~~ I could understand the image of snorting along but snored along sounds strange to me.

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