pinnace n.
a prostitute.
Anatomie of Abuses in Bagford Ballads (1878) I 516: A Pinnace may be riggde with silke, / And all may be but outward show. | ||
Crew of Kind Gossips 19: He hath the Pinnace rig’d with silken saile. | ||
Bartholomew Fair II ii: She has been before me, punk, pinnace and bawd, any time these two and twenty years. | ||
Spanish Gypsy I v: Him I dogged [...] From his new pinnace, deep in contemplation / Of the sweet voyage he stole to-night. | ||
Believe As You List IV i: A new riggd pinnace that put of from Corinth, and is arriud amonge vs tite, and yare nor comes shee to pay custome for her fraught but to impose a tax on such as dare presume to looke on her, wch smocke gamsters offer sooner then shee demandes it. | ||
‘Michaelmas Term’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) I 406: For when all the gallants are gone out o’ th’ town, / O then these fine Pinnaces lack their due landing. | ||
‘Seamans Frolick’ Pepys Ballads (1987) IV 213: [A] Captain did a small pinnace board [...] She did abide him many shot But under deck she prov’d too hot. | ||
Holborn Drollery 84: Twas at the Age of twenty-four My wand’ring Pinnace launched out. | ||
Innocent Mistress II iii: I suppose you have vanity enough to think your well-rigged pinnace worth securing. | ||
Fair Quaker of Deal V ii: Look you, Sir, the Wench I have taken is a plain Country Pinnace. | ||
‘Pray Remember Jack’ Jovial Songster 84: One day [...] I twigg’d a pinace fair, / Well rigg’d, a-bearing down. | ||
Pirate II 295: A nice tight-going bit of a pinnace, that is a consort of this chase of the Captain’s. |