Definitions for lime-juicer

lime-juicer lime-juic·er

Spelling: [lahym-joo-ser]
IPA: /ˈlaɪmˌdʒu sər/

Lime-Juicer is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in lime-juicer (-ceeiijlmru).

Definitions for lime-juicer

noun

  1. a British sailor.
  2. a British person.

Origin of lime-juicer

First recorded in 1855-60; so called because British sailors were required by law to drink lime juice to ward off scurvy

Examples for lime-juicer

These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) “for a lime-juicer.”

He had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."

These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) "for a lime-juicer."

At noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail.

"Yes, she's a lime-juicer," he remarked, and something like a sigh escaped him.

"I saw it done when I was second mate on a lime-juicer," Captain Ward spoke up.

Word Value for lime-juicer
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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