2. Noun. a sailor who has already crossed the equator ¹
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Definition of Shellback
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shellback
Literary usage of Shellback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low, Publishers' Circular, Sampson Low, Son and Marston (1900)
"6d. NEWNES, Feb. 99 Shelf Classification List of the London Library. Зато.
shellback, the, Boyd (Alec J.) 6s Feb. 99 •"è x 8J, PP- 314, Is LONDON LIB., Mar. ..."
2. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1906)
"... Creek and southward across the productive part of the Thames area of the
goldfield. Locality.—Upper part of shellback Creek, Thames district. Formation. ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1897)
"Tilling mentioned was ' Miss shellback,' and I repeated it to •my mother, and
she—well, I thought at first something had terrified her; but it was the name ..."
4. Why I Am a Socialist by Charles Edward Russell (1910)
"Summers followed the shellback down one street and up another, having no idea
where he was going, ... The shellback got a berth on a coastwise steamer. ..."
5. Why I Am a Socialist by Charles Edward Russell (1915)
"Summers followed the shellback down one street and up another, having no idea
where he was going, ... The shellback got a berth on a coastwise steamer. ..."
6. South Sea Foam: The Romantic Adventures of a Modern Don Quixote in the by Arnold Safroni-Middleton (1920)
"An old shellback, seeing how things were with us, took us into his confidence,
... When that old shellback stood on the Suva parade, put his finger ..."
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