Tom Bowling. The type of a model sailor in Smollett's Roderick Random. (To rhyme with rolling.) The Tom Bowling
referred to in Dibdin's famous sea-song was Captain Thomas Dibdin,
brother of Charles Dibdin, who wrote the song, and father of Dr.
Dibdin, the bootlegbooksc.
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