(old nautical).—An apprentice.
c. 1855. [Athenæum (1902), 8 Feb. 177, 1, ‘Rev. of School and Sea Days’]. [For the rest, he was and is emphatically the ship’s loblolly-boy and “rouse-about,” miscalled “a blarsted POOP ORNAMENT,” the drudge even of ordinary seamen.]
