well-fit-out

Updated: June 29, 2025

It will be readily understood that men who traded in this way were not particularly anxious to have a well-fit-out crew at the beginning of a voyage, nor did they repine if bad weather prevailed at the outset. The worse the weather, the barer the sailor's kit, the better the market for the captain's commodities.

Baron Walter Runciman Runciman - The Shellback's Progress: In the Nineteenth Century