Meaning of stand up and give it to him | Babel Free

Definitions

A phrase shouted by the officer on a whaleboat to order an attack with a harpoon.

Examples

“In this straining, bawling state, then, with his back to the fish, all at once the exhausted harpooneer hears the exciting cry—“Stand up, and give it to him!””

“Soon we were close by the waist boat’s hale and now the mate sung out to Johnson our boatsteerer “stand up and give it to him” and he did give it to solid.”

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