Sea-lawyer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Alternative form of sea lawyer. alt-of, alternative
"The learned Jesuit, Joseph Acosta, had certain experiences of sharks, or tiburons, Which do no discredit to the name of those hungry sea-lawyers. "I did wonder," he says, "at the incredible ravening of the tiburons or sharks, whenas I did see drawne from one, out of his gullet, a butcher's great knife, a great iron hooke, and a piece of a cowe's head with one whole horne, neither doe I know if both were there or no...""
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More examples"The learned Jesuit, Joseph Acosta, had certain experiences of sharks, or tiburons, Which do no discredit to the name of those hungry sea-lawyers. "I did wonder," he says, "at the incredible ravening of the tiburons or sharks, whenas I did see drawne from one, out of his gullet, a butcher's great knife, a great iron hooke, and a piece of a cowe's head with one whole horne, neither doe I know if both were there or no...""
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