lath-razor

Updated: May 25, 2025

Father Neptune came on board and those of the crew who had never crossed the Equator were hunted out of their hiding places, dragged on deck, lathered with a whitewash brush dipped in old grease, shaved with a lath-razor, and then tumbled unceremoniously backward into a cask of water.

Austin Bidwell - Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude