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A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels and Sufferings of Henry Tufts choose

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[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: To go upon the bonny lay . . . to undertake highway robbery.
at bonny lay, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Briar signifies a saw.
at briar, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Chant signifies writing of any kind.
at chant, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Chiv signifies a knife.
at chiv, n.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Clout signifies a handkerchief.
at clout, n.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: Touching a cly signifies robbing a pocket.
at cly, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: A cove, signifies a man.
at cove, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Crab signifies a shoe.
at crabs, n.2
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: Crack the qua signifies break the jail. [...] To crack a crabkin signifies to break a shoemaker’s shop.
at crack, v.2
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Darky signifies cloudy.
at darky, adj.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Dinge signifies a dark night.
at dinge, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Dingy cove signifies a negro man.
at dingy, adj.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: To do him of his blowen signifies to rob him of his wife.
at do, v.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Drag a prisoner.
at drag, n.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: dub a false key.
at dub, n.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Gentleman . . . a crow bar.
at gentleman, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: Glaze . . . a square of glass.
at glaze, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: To star a glaze signifies to cut out a square of glass.
at star the glaze (v.) under glaze, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: douse the glin [sic] put out the light.
at douse the glim (v.) under glim, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Glims . . . the stars.
at glim, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Jarvel signifies a jacket.
at jarvel, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Nipping jig signifies a gallows.
at nipping jig, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 292: Jigger signifies a door.
at jigger, n.1
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: Snuskin signifies a bed.
at snoozing ken, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Kickses signifies breeches.
at kicksies, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Kinchen signifies a child.
at kinchin, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog 293: To scrag a lay . . . to take clothes from the hedges.
at lay, n.3
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Leg bags signifies stockings.
at leg bags (n.) under leg, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Mitre signifies a hat.
at mitre, n.
[US] H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 293: Napping his bib signifies crying.
at nap one’s bib (v.) under nap, v.1
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