"sea-lawyer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, Household Words: A Weekly Journal - Volume, page 48",
          "text": "The learned Jesuit, Joseph Acosta, had certain experiences of sharks, or tiburons, Which do no discredit to the name of those hungry sea-lawyers. \"I did wonder,\" he says, \"at the incredible ravening of the tiburons or sharks, whenas I did see drawne from one, out of his gullet, a butcher's great knife, a great iron hooke, and a piece of a cowe's head with one whole horne, neither doe I know if both were there or no...\"",
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          "ref": "1878, Clara L. Matéaux, Odd Folks at Home, page 161",
          "text": "Shall I tell you how a Shark was once caught ? \" It was THE DOG-FISH SHARK. a hot day, and I was strolling on deck, when suddenly one of the officers called me, and pointed out a dark, razor-like fin cutting its slow but steady way through the blue waters that circled our ship. \" ' What's that ?' I asked, wonderingly. \" ' Don't you know a sea-lawyer yet, sir ?' \" ' Sea-lawyer ! Oh, you mean a Shark ; is that one ? ' \"",
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          "ref": "1893, Robert Bruce, Echoes from Coondambo, page 41",
          "text": "Where greedily sea-lawyers roam, And Neptune used to be at home, With barber rude and Triton ; Where sudden squalls with noisy wrath, Like bullies cross the vessel's path, Poor Jack to vent their spite on.",
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        "Alternative form of sea lawyer"
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          "text": "The learned Jesuit, Joseph Acosta, had certain experiences of sharks, or tiburons, Which do no discredit to the name of those hungry sea-lawyers. \"I did wonder,\" he says, \"at the incredible ravening of the tiburons or sharks, whenas I did see drawne from one, out of his gullet, a butcher's great knife, a great iron hooke, and a piece of a cowe's head with one whole horne, neither doe I know if both were there or no...\"",
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