Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to be whipped at the cart’s tail.

1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) n.p.: I napt the Flog at the Tumbler I was whipt at the Cart’s Tail.
1786		Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753].
1799		‘Cant Lang. of Thieves’ Monthly Mag. 7 Jan. [as cit. 1753].

(UK Und.) to be whipped at the cart’s tail.

1674		Proc. Old Bailey 12 Dec. 8: Four [were] sentenced to Shove the Fumbler, or receive the correction of the gentle Lash .
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Shove the Flogging tumbler, to be whipt at the Carts Arse.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Shove the Tumbler c. to be Whipt at the Cart’s Tail.
1703		Hell Upon Earth 10: Those cast for Petit-Larceny, shove the Tumbler, i.e. whipt at the Cart’s Tail.
1708		J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 22: [as cit. 1703].
1714		A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 141: Whipt at the Cart’s Arse, which they call Shove the Tumbler or Crying Carrots.
1718		C. Hitchin Regulator 20: To shove the Tumbler, alias to be whip’d at the Cart’s-Arse.
1721		Remarkable Tryals 2: He was ordered to shove the tumbler [F&H].
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1735		J. Brown in Shoemaker London Mob (2004) 98: This is my first fact, and I hope you’ll get me off to shove the tumbler’s arse.
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1764		Bloody Register I 125: He [...] was convicted at the Old Bailey, for stealing a pair of shoes, for which he was ordered to Shove the Tumbler (whipt at the cart’s tail).
1781		G. Parker View of Society II 75: Shove-Tumrill is the flash mode of expressing that a man has been publicly whipped.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 105: Their progress was a little impeded by [...] a delinquent shoving the tumbler.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1830		Lytton Paul Clifford I 25: Tom Tobyson is a good-for-naught [...] and deserves to shove the tumbler.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1844		Leeds Times 22 June 6/1: Ha! knave. And thou, to, once / Did shove the tumbler!
1863		(con. mid-18C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 83: I never shoved the tumbler for tail-drawing or poll-snatching on a levee-day.