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Soldiers, sailors, and traders brought home idioms from distant lands.
Clearly, that is not to say that most words appearing in quotations in the OED and in any other (original) source are being used for the first time: on the contrary, it is very likely—and this might well apply to terms of art of a specialized field and, particularly, the speech of sailors, who did not enjoy an entirely savory reputation—that the terms were in oral use for a long time before they were written down.
Long before the first European sailors beached in the Canaries, all seven islands were inhabited.
. . . One might have thought that with a $250m hole in a destroyer and 17 dead sailors, the Pentagon might have wanted to respond.
Aside from the unfortunate quotation, which hardly seems nautical at all, hogwash is ordinary English, which, it may be assumed, (English-speaking) sailors used as a medium in which to couch their nauticalisms.