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[UK] ‘The Dame of Honour’ in C. Lovat Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 11: Of humming Beer, my Cellar full, / I was the yearly Doner; / When toping Knaves had many a pull.
at humming ale, n.
[UK] ‘Three Merry Butchers & Ten Highwaymen’ in C. Lovat Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 10: She gave a squeaking cry / With that there came ten swaggering blades / With their Weapons ready drawn.
at blade, n.
[UK] ‘The Dame of Honour’ in C. Lovat Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 11: Of humming Beer, my Cellar full, / I was the yearly Doner; / When toping Knaves had many a pull.
at pull, n.
[UK] ‘Poll of Wapping Stairs’ in C.L. Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 15: Her father he’s a jolly dog / Poll keeps him spruce and brews his grog.
at jolly dog, n.
[UK] ‘Sir Gooseberry Gimcrack and Miss Squash’ in C.L. Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 16: Sir Gooseberry Gimcrack was thin, / Like one of your neat dapper masters.
at gimcrack, n.
[UK] ‘Dumble Dum Deary’ in C. Lovat Fraser Chap Book (1920) Sept. 18: I fell where I never did fall before; / In love it was, smack up to the chin.
at smack, adv.
[UK] ‘Old Broadside Ballads’ in C. Lovat Fraser Chap Book Sept. 4: The itinerant Chapmen, ‘flying stationers’ or pedlars, who included Broadside ballads among their stock of ribbons, laces etc.
at flying stationer (n.) under fly, v.
[UK] F.M. Hueffer ‘The House’ Chap Book Mar. 18: I am just an old postman and gone very weak in the legs! Pretty well on the shelf!
at on the shelf under shelf, n.2
[UK] H. Munro ‘One Day Awake’ in Chap Book Dec. 6: All your rubbishy prattle.
at rubbish, adj.
[UK] H. Munro ‘One Day Awake’ in Chap Book Dec. 15: You’ll go smash, of course.
at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
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