Definition of "soger"

The captain called him a "soger," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.

1834, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast

I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.

a. 1900, “Hanging Johnny”, in Ivan Walton et al., editors, Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors‎, published 2002, page 66

Come aft, you lazy soger, an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him […]

1902, Louis Becke, The Jalasco Brig‎, page 82