skewer n.
1. a sword.
New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: skewer a sword. | ||
Dict. Sl. and Cant. | ||
Flash Dict. | ||
Modern Flash Dict. | ||
Sixteen-String Jack 151: Steady, young sir, put up your skewer. | ||
Vocabulum. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Jun. 6/4: ‘You have knighted, madame, a freak of nature.’ And then he went out backwards, gingerly holding the three knightly skewers in under his coat-tail. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 16 July 47/1: Fair narks they are, jist like them backstreet clicks, / excep’ they fights wiv skewers ’stid o’ bricks. | ‘The Play’ in
2. a pen.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |