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Dixon’s Polyanthos choose

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[US] Dixon’s Polyanthos 7 Nov. 2: Barry, keeps an Oyster-house, in Grand street, near the junction of Henry, which is an out-and-out crib. This may be known by the sign of an oyster-house, and is a diving-hole.
at diving-hole, n.
[US] Dixon’s Polyanthos 6 June n.p.: The very shrewd suggestion that now [Julia] and Fanny [two well-known whores] had taken hold of the stones the monument must rise.
at stone, n.1
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