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 Old Man of the Sea.Oldcastle (Sir John), 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Oldbuck.
 
An antiquary; from the character of Jonathan Oldbuck, a whimsical virtuoso in Sir Walter Scott’s Antiquary.   1
 


 Old Man of the Sea.Oldcastle (Sir John), 

 
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