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)

(obsolete, or, eye dialect) Summer.

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Various, title=Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=To the examples alleged by Richardson, in his Dictionary'', add the following: "I se it by ensaunple In somer tyme on trowes; Ther some bowes ben leved, And some bereth none, There is a meschief in the ''more Of swiche manere bowes." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=John Knox, title=The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In Scotland, that somer , was nothing but myrth; for all yead[515] with the preastis eavin at thare awin pleasur. }}