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 213: Cloaths Lurries. | |
![]() | 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. |