Crossword-Solution: SKIPPERING
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Archaic object pronoun
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Hint 1 meaning
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEH
Hint 3 another clue
BEING USED OR WORKED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Sentences with SKIPPERING (5)
And I should like to see one more capable of skippering their side!" The Rest Cure I had not seen Raffles for a month or more, and I was sadly in need of his advice.
The reader will readily appreciate, therefore, the apprehensions which assailed Cappy Ricks when the Blue Star Navigation Company discovered it had on its payroll one Matthew Peasley, a Nobody from Nowhere, who not only had the insufferable impudence to apply for a job skippering the finest windjammer in the fleet, but when rebuffed in no uncertain terms, refused to withdraw his application, and defied his owners to fire him.
Peterson, if you want a steady job skippering for the Blue Star Navigation Company you've got to earn it, and to earn it you've got to give this fellow Peasley a good sound thrashing for the good of his immortal soul.
However, it will be about three months before I commence to suffer, and in the meantime I'm going to be supremely happy skippering the barkentine Retriever back to Grays Harbor, if they hang me for it when I get there.
Instead, he went down to the Red Stack people and got himself a job skippering a tug; and great was his joy thereat, for the wages were fully as good as he had enjoyed on the Quickstep, and he was enabled to spend nearly every night in port.