Crossword-Solution: SKEGS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The master (under God) was one Zaccheus Hellier, of Blackwall, and his mate was one Richard Morris, of that place; their pilot was one Anthony Jerado, a Frenchman, of the province of Marseilles; the purser was one William Thompson, our owner's son; the merchants' factors were Romaine Sonnings, a Frenchman, and Richard Skegs, servant unto the said Master Stapers.

Then fell our other factor, named Richard Skegs, upon his knees before the king, and said, "I beseech your highness either to pardon our master or else suffer me to die for him, for he is ignorant of this cause." And then the people of that country, favouring the said Richard Skegs, besought the king to pardon them both.

When sharpies had skegs, as they did in some localities, they were not so sensitive as the New Haven boats.

The other man, whose name was Skegs, had a woeful pallor, but an undaunted behaviour and a very fierce eye.

But contrariwise, as it toucheth the Interlude of the Deluge, mass! without those beasts of mine, the cats and dogs too (as the verse goes)-- "'Otter, fox, fulmart also; Hares hopping gaily' withouten these wherefore was Noah's ark builded, and so great a stir made?" "But if you be about to die, Master Skegs," I put in, "as you say you are, of what advantage is this same Deluge to you?" "Ay, truly," cried Ptolemy, "for thou hast no wife, man, nor any dependent on thee.