[DOC] [TLE] Scurvy - Wikipedia [PAR] Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C. Early symptoms include 
weakness, ... It took another 40 years before the British Navy began giving out 
lemon juice ... Scurvy is one of the accompanying diseases of malnutrition (other 
such .... During the 18th century, disease killed more British sailors than enemy 
action. [DOC] [TLE] Don't Forget the Lime | Now I Know [PAR] Oct 10, 2013 ... You're a British subject, sailing around the world, bouncing around the ... What's 
weird, though, is that civilization has known how to ward off scurvy for centuries if 
not ... These people knew that limes, lemons, and oranges prevented the ... to 
give sailors lemon or lime juice each day to help prevent scurvy. [DOC] [TLE] Blog : westward & little gull [PAR] When it comes to the flavor department, some gusto, a pop, and a kick never ... 
Here are a few spices we use in house toin the words of Chef Zoi, Keep it .... a 
bit and ditching the butter and cream for olive oil, garlic, lemon, and vinegar. .... It 
was a beverage drunk by the British navy in the Caribbean to help ward off 
scurvy... [DOC] [TLE] Pirate Glossary - Black Bart's Locker [PAR] BROAD ARROW : The British royal mark for government stores. ... A Broadside" 
has come to mean firing all the cannon on one side of one ship into ... CORDAGE 
: A general term for the running rigging of a ship and any rope kept in reserve. ..... 
giving their crews lime juice and being called limeys by the American sailors. [DOC] [TLE] A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea - USNI ... [PAR] Jul 1, 2014 ... Inheriting Britain's Royal Navy tradition of providing sailors with a ... in U.S. Navy 
ships was reserved for the wardroom and the captain's ... Grog is a concoction of 
rum, water and citrus juice that was originally drunk by British sailors and .... like 
the sailors are a bunch of drunkstoo bad ONE person had... [DOC] [TLE] Pirates of the Caribbean --Piratical and other nautical terms, a ... [PAR] All in the Wind: The state of a ship's sails when they are parallel to the direction of 
... It may come from the religious definition where articles refer to: the separate 
items of ..... A proper grog often included lime juice to help to stave off scurvy and 
a ... Grommet: A name British seamen gave to an apprentice sailor, or ship's boy. [DOC] [TLE] Brass Monkeys and Clean Slates: Nautical Terminology II [PAR] Sep 13, 2014 ... Following on from the last feature on nautical terminology, we ... Meanwhile, the 
word 'limey' for a British sailor, now used for any old person from Blighty, came ... 
of giving a ration of lime juice to sailors on navy ships to ward off scurvy. ... So 
when a ship was seen coming in from a vantage point on land, the... [DOC] [TLE] GenBosunSlang - Mariners [PAR] From the sailing-ship term for when a ship encounters a 180-degree wind shift 
and ... A sailing-ship voyage from the UK to Australia, then with coal from New ... 
BROWSE HIS JIB Somebody who has 'browsed his jib' has drunk until his face is 
.... Derives from the practice of issuing lime-juice to a ship's crew to combat 
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the first Englishmen to try it died after a 12-hour session ... The thwacking great 
dose of booze was still relatively pure, bar the sugar and lime juice. The latter, 
incidentally, was not just for showit was used to ward off scurvy. [DOC] [TLE] Gimlet cocktail - Difford's Guide [PAR] Classically the Gimlet is a simple 50-50 mix of gin and lime cordial but the rise in 
... discovered that consumption of citrus fruits helped prevent scurvy, one of the 
most ... and that it is the vitamins in citrus

Question: This term for a British person or British sailor comes from the citrus juice once drunk to ward off scurvy
Answer: limey