by Henry Beard and Roy McKie
Beard, a co-founder of National Lampoon, provided this "dictionary for landlubbers, old salts and armchair drifters," while McKie, who illustrates magazines and children's books, did the breezy cartoons. The word "abandon" is defined as " 1. Wild state in which a sailor acquires a boat. 2. Wild state in which a sailor relinquishes a boat." A bulkhead is "discomfort suffered by sailors who drink too much" and "bunk" is "nautical lore." A chock is "sudden and usually unpleasant surprise suffered by Spanish seaman." Deviation is an "unnatural love of the sea." A life preserver is "any personal flotation device that will keep an individual who has fallen off a vessel above water long enough to be run over by it or another rescue craft." Get the drift? (Workman, $4.95)
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