The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Dog's Body

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A mess of dried peas boiled in a bag.

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2026 Editor's Note: The dogsbody — pease pudding, the junior's dinner — became the junior himself: British English still calls the office drudge a dogsbody, straight from this menu. (Ed: BR 2026-06-04)

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