Merkin

a term usually applied to a woman’s privities. Originally false hair for those parts. Merry Dun of Dover , a large ship figuring in sailors’ yarns. She was so large that when pa ing through the Straits of Dover her flying jib-boom knocked down Calais steeple; while, at the same time, the fly of her ensign swept a flock of sheep off Dover cliffs. She was so lofty that a boy who attempted to go to her mast-head found himself a grey old man when he reached the deck again. This yarn is founded on a story in the Scand in avian mythology. There is also a legend among sailors of the gallant Thunder bomb, which had “ninety-nine decks and no bottom.”