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The Clay Minstrel choose

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[US] ‘Harry Clay & the Jackets of Blue!’ in Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 259: Then summon him, tars! Shout, jackets of blue.
at bluejacket, n.
[US] ‘Get Out Of The Way!’ in Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 176: We’ll head him soon or burst his boiler.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[US] ‘Yankee Doodle!’ in Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 168: Johnny, haste your ‘duds’ to pack.
at duds, n.1
[US] ‘Come, Rouse Up, Ye Bold Hearted Whigs of Kentucky’ in Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 334: There are many Republicans, old men and new; / To all such we say [...] ‘go it’ for Harry.
at go it, v.
[US] ‘The Rubber; or Mat’s Last Game’ in J. Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 350: Ritchie, to gull the populace, fluttered like a stool-pigeon!
at stool-pigeon, n.1
[US] Littell ‘Yankee Doodle!’ Clay Minstrel (1844) 169: Old Yankee Doodle’s noble tune [...] be it sung again ‘right’ soon.
at right, adv.
[US] Littell ‘The Rubber; or Matt’s Last Game’ Clay Minstrel (1844) 349: He patted Cass-men on the back [...] Soft-sawdered all mankind.
at soft sawder, v.
[US] ‘Harry of Kentucky’ in Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 161: Each striving which to Whigs can show / The cleanest pair of heels.
at show (someone) a (clean) pair of heels (v.) under show, v.
[US] ‘The Rubber; or Matt’s Last Game’ Littell Clay Minstrel (1844) 350: Humbug Benton [...] Came forth in many a windy speech; for he felt some ambition, / Like his great prototype, to show an ass’s sad condition!
at windy, adj.1
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