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Thread #10562 Message #3906051
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
15-Feb-18 - 10:43 PM
Thread Name: vocabulary: We Have Fed Our Seas
Subject: RE: vocabulary: WE HAVE FED OUR SEAS
Ancient bump for 3-of-4 maybe:
Kipling used "Blue Light" in two related ways. Here it's same as modern flares for signaling, perimeter security, emergency lighting &c.
In the Gunner Barnabas narrative or "Blue Light Bobs." &c it's a nickname for a Christian officer with "Blue Light" intensity evangelism.
"Strawed" is Scots for strewed.
"Swin" is the old name for the northern approach to the Thames, aka The King's Channel.