Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) shoes.

1781		G. Parker View of Society II 174: A highwayman will ding his Upper-Benjamin, his Jazey, his Sticks, his Flogger, his Diggers, his Beater-Cases, &c. and having all these on him when he committed the robbery, is totally transformed by dinging.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions .
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1812–82		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1845		G.W.M. Reynolds Mysteries of London vol. 2 142: Beater-cases Wellington boots.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.