drogher

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If that is not Desmond I’m a Dutchman, and the man sitting just abaft the stroke-oar is Dick Needham, who went with the youngsters in the drogher.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

At night sail was shortened, and the schooner stood backwards and forwards, now to the northward, now to the southward, so that no risk might be run of passing the drogher in the dark.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

"A Rimouski drogher on the lookout for a tow."

From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Leyendecker, Frank X.

It was a question whether the drogher had continued her course due west, or had steered northward to Saint Barts, or southward to Saint Eustatia, or Saint Kitts.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

The drogher was hired by the day, and the longer she was out the more he pocketed.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald