"... a fictitious name, given by our sailors, to that kind of Mediterranean wine with which the ships are supplied on that station; and which, after the grog and wine usually served, they cannot, for a while, relish: hence, to be driven above Gibraltar, is, as they call it, to be black-strapped." —Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 41
"... a fictitious name, given by our sailors, to that kind of Mediterranean wine with which the ships are supplied on that station; and which, after the grog and wine usually served, they cannot, for a while, relish: hence, to be driven above Gibraltar, is, as they call it, to be black-strapped."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 41