pear-making n.
(UK Und.) enrolling in a regiment, taking the offered bounty and then deserting; the process can be repeated several times.
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: The cove was fined in the steel for pear making; the fellow was imprisoned in the house of correction for taking bounties from different regiments. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Vocabulum 65: pear-making The act of drawing supplies from both sides. |