faulkener n.
1. one who lures an innocent player into a crooked gambling game.
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Faulkner c. see Tumbler, first part [i.e. ‘one that shows Tricks with and without a Hoop also one that Decoys, or draws others into Play’]. |
2. a juggler, a tumbler.
![]() | see sense 1. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: faulkner a tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks, (cant) perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Modern Flash Dict. n.p.: Faulkner, a juggler, tumbler. | |
![]() | Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. | |
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. |