Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US Und.) to kill.

1859

Matsell Vocabulum 8: Anodyne. Death; to anodyne, to kill. ‘Ahr say, Bill, vy don’t yer hopen that jug and draw the cole?’ ‘Vy, my cove, aren’t you avare as how a bloke snoses hin it?’ ‘Vell, vot hof it, aren’t yer habel to put him to hanodyne?’.