dipsey
nounEtymology From deep sea.
- a dipsey line
- "Soundin' is a trick, though," said Dan, "when your dipsey lead's all the eye you're like to hev for a week. What d'you make it, Dad?"1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
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