"...by the time he had groped his way up to the gunroombulkhead he could already hear the downpour, a rainstorm of prodigious violence.
"'...I have never seen the like in all my time at sea. Nor has the master. Come along; I will fetch you a griego.'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 144
also spelled grego.
"...by the time he had groped his way up to the gunroom bulkhead he could already hear the downpour, a rainstorm of prodigious violence.
"'...I have never seen the like in all my time at sea. Nor has the master. Come along; I will fetch you a griego.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 144