Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Charing Cross n.

a horse.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1883		N. Devon Jrnl 8 Feb. 7/2: [from The Echo] Call a flounder and dab with a tidy Charing Cross.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1944		Maurer & Baker ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in AS XIX:3 191/2: Chair and Cross. A horse.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 268: A tosser on a Wilkie Bard, / A lord on a Charing Cross, / Is ’ow I fell, and it’s bread-’n-lard / To bear my milkman’s ’orse.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 99: The nineteenth-century Charing Craws ‘horse’.
2002		K. Lucas ‘All my life I’ve wanted to be a Barrow Boy’ in Obfuscation News Apr. Issue 20 🌐 So you have arranged for Dolly to lend you a Charring [sic] Cross.