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among sailors, is to mount the highest yards (called sky-scrapers), and then slide down the ropes for amusement. (See Lark.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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