Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lose the number of one's mess

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables: lose the num-ber of one's mess
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To die, to perish.

Example Sentences

""What do you think we come to sea for? If we can take a man-of-war of our own size she's worth half a dozen merchant craft, though, to be sure, some of us may lose the number of our mess; but we all know that, and make no count of it.""
"Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that "So-and-so has lost the number of his mess!" and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory!"
""And then before the mast, there was poor John Proby, who lost the number of his mess two days out of Callao.""

Inflected Forms

loses the number of one's mess (present, singular) losing the number of one's mess (participle, present) lost the number of one's mess (participle, past) lost the number of one's mess (past)

Questions

What does lose the number of one's mess mean?: To die, to perish.

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