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Sallee-man|ˈsæliːmæn|
Also Sally-man.
[f. Sallee, the name of a Moroccan seaport formerly of piratical repute.]
1. A Moorish pirate-ship. Obs. exc. Hist. So also Sallee rover.
1637J. Dunton Jrnl. Sally Fleet Ep. Ded., Being sent out Master and Pilote in a Sallyman of warre, with twenty-one Moores and five Flemish rennagadoes, unto the coast of England to take Christians. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 29 One of the Seamen having descry'd to the S.W. a ship which he took for a Sally-Man. Ibid. 30 This Supposed Sally-Rover prov'd nothing else but a Virginia Merchant-Man. 1698Froger Voy. 2 On the 9th we had a sight of another Vessel,..she seem'd to be a Sally⁓man, and might carry about 30 pieces of cannon. 1734Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scotl. (1885) V. 593 A ship⁓master in Boness and his crew who were taken by a Salee Rover and are now at Algeirs. 1754Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 24 Aug., A Sallee man, which cruizes from Cape Bon to the Isle of Galeta. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal II. xii. 235 A Sallee rover gave chace to our ship.
2. A marine hydrozoan, Velella vulgaris.
It floats on the sea with its vertical crest acting as a sail.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 387 The Sally Man. This insect is more firm and opake than either of the foregoing. 1860G. Bennett Gatherings Naturalist Austral. 54 Vellela limbosa, or Sallyman, is abundant. 1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 739 A remarkable creature called by the popular name of Sallee Man, sometimes corrupted in nautical fashion into Sallyman. |