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shanghaiing

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With the Napoleonic wars raging across Europe, the British navy had taken to shanghaiing Americans in foreign ports and at sea to fill out its wartime fleets.

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But I don't know whether the attempted shanghaiing of Ruth was premeditated or not.

And shanghaiing, to use a modern term, was not unknown.

The cheerful industry of shanghaiing was reduced to a science.

Tom Mowbray had proved his power by shanghaiing him aboard the Etna!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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