drogher

[ droh-ger ]

noun

1. a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of drogher¹

1775–85; < Dutch drog ( h ) er ship for fishing and drying herring and mackerel, equivalent to drog ( en ) to dry + -er -er ¹

Example Sentences

Droger, Drogher, drō′ger, n. a West Indian coasting vessel, with long masts and lateen sails.

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Drogher after drogher left us filled with salvage, while others crowded as near as they dared to receive the bags, cases and bundles, that were constantly being hurled overside.

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Our motto in the little drogher yonder is to keep her afloat with the least possible bother to ourselves.

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Down East molasses drogher skippers, who, notwithstanding the climate, clothed themselves in their go-ashore long-napped black beaver hats, stiff, coarse broadcloth coats, thick, high bombazine stocks and cowhide boots, landed from their two-oared unpainted yawls, and ascended the stairs with the air of an admiral of the blue.

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Very kind of the Rimouski drogher.

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