subs. (nautical).—A countryman shipped as a sailor.
1886. BESANT, The World Went Very Well Then, ch. xxix. Formerly, Jack would have replied to this sally that, d’ye see, Luke was a GRASS COMBER and a land swab, but that for himself, there was no tea aboard ship, and a glass of punch or a bowl of flip was worth all the tea ever brought from China.
