wheel-band in the nick phr.
drinking in the normal fashion, tilting the glass over the left thumb.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Wheel-band in the Nick regular Drinking over the left Thumb. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |