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sea boil
Lab
a painful kind of boil caused by an organism found in sea water.
See also:
water-pup
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.