batterfanging

Updated: May 19, 2025

To the laziest of ships, however, there comes occasionally a time when the bustling, hurrying wind will take no denial, and you've got to "git up an' git," as the Yanks put it. Such a time succeeded our "batterfanging" about, after losing the trades.

Frank T. Bullen - The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales