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[UK] Public Ledger 19 Jan. 3/3: A most abandoned character, well-known at Billingsgate as a fish-prigger or fish-dobber — a person [...] getting his living principally by stealing fish from boats.
at dobber, n.4
[UK] Public Ledger 19 Jan. 3/3: A most abandoned character, well-known at Billingsgate as a fish-prigger or fish-dobber — a person [...] getting his living principally by stealing fish from boats.
at prigger, n.1
[UK] Public Ledger 31 Mar. 3/2: Ha! Ha! there is Brackey the darned informer — may bad luck attend him!
at darned, adj.
[UK] Public Ledger 4 Nov. 3/4: On 28th of May last he was employed by Barnett [...] to go to the defendant’s house to purchase a pint of sixpenny.
at sixpenny, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 28 Oct. 4/2: Blackee won’t come back; he is gone to prison.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Public Ledger 19 July 4/1: Enumerating various six and eightpenny [...] charges for attendance in the style of an attorney.
at six-and-eightpenny, adj.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: The principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads: [...] Coiners Bit makers.
at bit-maker (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at copeman, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: Receivers of stolen goods Fencers.
at fencer, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at game waterman (n.) under game, adj.1
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: The principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads: [...] Snatchers of reticules, watches, &c &tc. from the person Grabbers.
at grabber, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at heavy horsemen (n.) under heavy, adj.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at light horseman (n.) under light, adj.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at lighterman, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: Swindlers of every description, among which are Macers, duffers, and ring-droppers.
at macer, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: The principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads: Housebreakers Cracksmen, pannymen.
at pannyman, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: Horse and cattle stealers Prad-chewers.
at prad chewer (n.) under prad, n.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: Women and men who waylay inebriate persons for the purpose of robbery Ramps.
at ramp, n.2
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of plundering on the river and its banks, on board shipping, barges, &c. Light horsemen, heavy horsemen, game watermen, lightermen, scuffle hunters, copemen, &c.
at scuffle-hunter (n.) under scuffle, v.
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: The principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads: Footpads Spicemen.
at spice gloak (n.) under spice, n.1
[UK] Public Ledger 12 Nov. 3/3: The principal actors in criminality may be classed under the following heads: Highwaymen and Footpads Grand Tobymen.
at tobyman (n.) under toby, n.2
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