Lexicographical Neighbors of Drogers
Literary usage of Drogers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers by John S. Springer (1851)
"A Night in the Woods.—Traveling on Ice.— A Span of Horses lost.—Pat's
Adventure.—drogers' Caravan.—Horses in the Water.—Recovery of a sunken Load. ..."
2. Magna Charta for America: James Abercromby's "An Examination of the Acts of by Jack Phillip Greene, James Abercromby, Charles F. Mullett, Edward C. Papenfuse (1986)
"... or drogers or other Such Vessels or Boats, as are Commonly made use of in the
Plantations, for Carrying and Transporting the Native Commodities of such ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... in council was issued to the commanding engineer, " to receive money in lieu
of stones, whenever the masters of the sugar drogers should desire it. ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"Nearly every day one of these hide-drogers would be announced äs "up" for the
diggings, her sailing being put off from day to day until loaded to the ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"From Drag, v., 1681, NED " It is quite common for drogers, as they are sometimes
called, to form a northern caravan. Company, and mutual assistance in cases ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"... and to the eastward of the Three Fathom Bank ; but the use of thia channel is
not advisable at night except by the " drogers" and other small vessels. ..."
7. History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-marque: During Our War by George Coggeshall (1856)
"The above prizes, we presume, were West India trading vessels, commonly called "
drogers." What may be called the coasting trade of the West Indies, ..."
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