Because of this custom, the long-voyage merchantmen who carried cargoes round the Horn or the Cape were for years nicknamed "Lime-juicers."
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
American officers were not the kind to fire on women and children, nor were they likely to look on mum-chance, and let the lime-juicers do it neither.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
Lime-juice and other anti-scorbutics were frequently served out: a precautionary measure which originated in Cook's day, and which down to our own times has caused all British sailors to be popularly known as "lime-juicers" in the American Navy.
"Terre Napoleon A history of French explorations and projects in Australia"
Ernest Scott