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One ship's captain remembered Blackbeard as 'a tall, spare man' - an unembroidered eye-witness description that supports many knee-trembling references to a giant of a man, a devil in disguise.

Now she lives in disgrace.

When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'