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Old Bailey Experience 373: Starrers [...] With a pointed and well-tempered knife, one of the picks a hole by scraping out the putty [and] stars the glass, dividing it in two, by causing it to crack from top to bottom.at angler, n.
Old Bailey Experience 373: Starrers [...] With a pointed and well-tempered knife, one of the picks a hole by scraping out the putty [and] stars the glass, dividing it in two, by causing it to crack from top to bottom. Old Bailey Experience 373: What the boys call soot-bag hunting, was once a pursuit behind coaches, where they would get up and seize any lady’s bag which was in their reach.at soot-bag, n.
Old Bailey Experience 313: [F]emales, but mere children to view [...] tawdrily decked out with baldrick and tiara, dancing with all the airs of a Bona Roba, with their fancy men.at bona roba, n.
Old Bailey Experience 313: [F]emales, but mere children to view [...] tawdrily decked out with baldrick and tiara, dancing with all the airs of a Bona Roba, with their fancy men [...] These assemblies are flashly designated cock and hen, chicken hops, or the freaks of the swell kids.at chicken hop (n.) under chicken, n.
Old Bailey Experience 361: [O]ne [pickpocket] commits the act and another receives the article from the thief, which is called taking ‘ding’.at ding, n.1
Old Bailey Experience 214: The old Recorder will now knock a man down for transportation.at knock down, v.
Old Bailey Experience 115: A man was committed for robbing, or attempting to rob, a cart, in the street, (what is called ‘dragging’).at dragging, n.
Old Bailey Experience 43: ‘I would take one [i.e. stroke of the whip] for each month, if the old fellow (the judge) would let me off the imprisonment’.at old fellow, n.
Old Bailey Experience 374: [P]inchers. Men of good exterior appearance [...] visit shops, and under the pretence of becoming a customer, convey from the cards
of jewellery handed them for inspection, as many valvuables as they can.at pincher, n.1
Old Bailey Experience 41: Fences [...] will never purchase of a new hand without a proper introduction, for fear of ‘a plant’ (being betrayed).at plant, n.
Old Bailey Experience 331: Those who travel for this purpose are generally dressed respectably, and are so well supplied with money as to support themselves in very good style [...] being paid after a certain rate for each successful put-up, (intimation:).at put up, n.1
Old Bailey Experience 330: Sometimes it is a put-up affair; that is, notice has been given them by some one on the premises intended to be robbed, or by an agent residing near the spot, of an opportunity to commit a robbery.at put-up, adj.
Old Bailey Experience 398: In every small band [...] of young thieves, there will always be found one or two sillikins, as they denominate those whom they can persuade to be foremost in any undertaking, by taunts of cowardice and threats of dissolving partnership.at sillikin, n.
Old Bailey Experience 352: [I]t is from the practice of the old women keeping a stand for the sale of fruit, as a blind or cover for their real calling, (buying of stolen articles,) that this term, ‘stall,’ is derived.at stall, n.1
Old Bailey Experience 43: ‘[O]nly three months and a teazing. Never mind! that's over in ten minutes; (meaning the flogging).at tease, v.1
Old Bailey Experience 295: [Young prisoners] becoming impertinent and troublesome, saying they had been told their sentence — ‘only a teazing and turned up’ (discharged).at turn up, v.2
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