transitive and intransitive. Nautical slang. to pay with the fore-topsail and variants: to leave without paying (one's debts or one's creditors).
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| 释义 | society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > be unpaid (of money, wages, etc.) [verb (intransitive)] > leave without paying (4) to pay with the fore-topsail1834 transitive and intransitive. Nautical slang. to pay with the fore-topsail and variants: to leave without paying (one's debts or one's creditors). to jump one's bill1888 To skip over, skip, pass by, evade. swedge1897 transitive. = swage, v.3 (also transferred to double back or round an object). Also (U.S. Nautical slang. rare) intransitive, to go off or depart… to skip (one's) bail1900 to skip (one's) bail = to jump (one's) bail at jump, v. 10a. |
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