lurries n.
1. (also larries) clothes.
Eng. Rogue I 50: Lurries, All manner of Cloaths. | ||
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But if the cully naps us / and the Lurres from us take / O then they rub us to the Whitt / And it is hardly worth a Make. | ||
Triumph of Wit. | ||
Golden Cabinet of Secrets. | ||
Scoundrel’s Dict. n.p.: Larries Cloaths. |
2. a quantity of valuables, e.g. watches and rings.
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They rifle the house for yellow-boyes and pieces of white, which is Gold and Silver, and if they find none, they take the best buleroyes or Lurryes they can find and pike off with them. | ||
Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: ‘Now,’ saith he, ‘that thou art entered into our fraternity, thou must not scruple to act any villainies which thou shalt be able to perform, whether it be to nip a bung, bite the Peter Cloy, the lurries crash.’. | in||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Lurries c. Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 105: [as cit. 1684]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Vocabulum. | ||
Londres et les Anglais 316/1: lurries, argent, montres, bijoux et autres effets mobiliers. | ||
Aus. Sl. Dict. 47: Lurries, watches, rings, etc. |