loge n.
(UK Und.) a watch.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Loge, c. a Watch. I suppose from the French Horloge. | ||
Regulator 20: A Loge, alias Watch. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
Proc. Old Bailey 8 Dec. 24/1: I have just now made a Watch, and have tipp'd George Sutton a Hanger and the Loge. | ||
Proc. Old Bailey 6 Sept. 147/2: I ask’d her, what she was brought in for? She told me, — for picking a Cull’s Pocket of a Loge, (a Watch) three Weeks ago. | ||
Select Trials at Old Bailey (1742) IV 348: They took Opportunity to make the Gentleman’s Loges and Tales, (or Men’s repeating Watches). | ||
Discoveries (1774) 30: There is a Cull that has a rum Loag, Gammon: Then we jostle him up, and one knocks his Kelp off, and while he lifts his Hand up, his Loag is napp’d. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Dict. Sl. and Cant. | ||
Life and Trial of James Mackcoull 299: She believed he had ne’er a loge. | ||
Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. |
In phrases
a repeating watch.
Account 18 Mar. 🌐 [...] to Saweer clearly, (that is, to keep a good look out) that they should have Vid Loges, (repeating Watches) by their Side [...] in each Lower there were Ridges (or Guineas) and two Vid Loges. | ||
Bloody Register III 170: They should have Vid Loges (repeating watches) by their side, that Jenny’s footman might place his mistress accordingly. |