Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.

* {{quote-book, 1834, , Two Years Before the Mast

, passage=The captain called him a "soger ," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.}}

* {{quote-book, a. 1900, chapter=Hanging Johnny, title=Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, editors=Ivan Walton et al. citation

, passage=I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.}}

* {{quote-book, 1902, Louis Becke, The Jalasco Brig citation

, passage=Come aft, you lazy soger , an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him

(chiefly, Scotland)

Noun

(en noun)

(nonstandard, dialect) soldier

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