I'd been afloat on the roof of a deckhouse for three days arter the Fruiter Bainbridge were cast away, and I tell you, mate, I was powerful glad to hit any old kind of terra firma then.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
All day Sunday we steamed slowly southward, seeing no vessels except a Jamaica "Fruiter," whose captain shouted to us, as he crossed our bow, that he had been blown off his course in a recent gale, and would like to know his position and distance.
"Campaigning in Cuba"
George Kennan
In cities of any considerable size, there will always be found a grocer or Fruiter who is willing to take a first-class article at a price considerably above the usual market price of ordinary nuts.
"The Pecan and its Culture"
H. Harold Hume