sea boil

Lab

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a painful kind of boil caused by an organism found in sea water.

Quotations

1905

The industry they pursue especially exposes them to accident, and in particular to cuts, sea-boils and ulcers. . . .

1918

"I never gets sea boils," one old chap told me the other day.

1932

Friends were at first surprised when I began commending the brass chains worn round the wrist against Water Pups which are sea boils.