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[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 3: In later days, when the commercial bagsmen began to scour the country.
at bagman, n.
[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 75: Let us moisten the clay, since ’t is thirsty and porous: / No thinking! no shrinking! all drinking in chorus!
at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 210: All were drunk! [...] a few gentlemen not above half-seas-over.
at half seas over, adj.
[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 47: Push about the bottle. Mr. Escot, it stands with you. No heeltaps. [Ibid.] 74: A heeltap, a heeltap! I never could bear it! / So fill me a bumper, a bumper of claret.
at heeltap, n.
[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 74: For a heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it! / No sky-light! no twilight! while Bacchus rules o’er us.
at skylight (n.) under sky, n.1
[UK] T.L. Peacock Headlong Hall (1816) 200: Four marriages were about to take place by way of a merry winding-up of the Christmas festivities.
at wind-up, n.1
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