puckerowv.

1843 Dover Tel. & Cinque Ports Gen. Advertiser 9 Sept. 6/3 Had the boatman remained in his ‘dinghee’, he would, most certainly, have been carried off, as it is very a common occurrence for ‘dandees’ (native boatmen) to be ‘puckerowed’ by tigers whilst in the act of paddling their canoes in the various rivers and ‘nullahs’ of the Sunderbunds.

1876 C. Chapman First Ten Years Sailor's Life at Sea iv. 224 Now is the time; let us ‘puckerrow’ it.

1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson p. xix Hindustani verbs..are habitually adopted into the quasi-English by converting the imperative into an infinitive. Thus..to puckarow.

1887 Outing July 331/1 Charley Wheeler were the lucky man as had ‘puckerowd’ poor Hans' dry-goods.

1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif xvi. 194 So mechanically did they ‘puckarow’ those baskets, that often one would pass from the hatch to the gang way empty.

1907 M. Roberts Flying Cloud iii. 13 What with puckerowing cases, lashing tanks, and frapping stunsail-booms on the deck-house..there was enough to do.

1931 W. Kirk in Cabar Feidh Sept. 389/2 Not all the legislators, robbing poor and rich to-day, can puckarow my talisman—the Badge of Cabar Feidh!

1943 M. A. Pei Langs. for War & Peace iii. 80 Among expressions which have remained local are..to puckerow, ‘to lay hold of’.