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Bosun' s Chair - Sailing (gambling) and douzeper (iou)


Bosun' s Chair - Sailing (gambling)


A chair traditionally made from a plank and rope, used to hoist workers aloft to maintain the rigging.

douzeper (iou)



douzeper noun. . ME.
[Orig. in pl. form douzepers from Old French douze pers (mod. douze pairs) twelve peers.]
Each of the twelve paladins of Charlemagne, the bravest of his knights; any of the twelve chief peers of France, temporal and spiritual, regarded as their symbolic heirs; fig. any illustrious person. Usu. in pl.