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[UK] Pope Mother Gin 25: Two large casks of fatt’ning Barley Oil (Strong drink is called in the Canting Dialect Oil of barley.
at barley, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 15: Herds of city Saints elected, As Bell-weathers and Bulls, for noise respected [...] who from their tubs Make bulls in praise of Schism and Calves-head clubs.
at bell-wether, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 9: The feeding kids that wipers bite (A kid signifies, in the Canting Dialect, a child; and to bite the wiper is to steal the handkerchief).
at bite, v.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 29: Nor the whistling of the Southern gale, Which tow’rds Black-Indies drove me scap’d from jail.
at Black Indies, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 13: Their brats with scraps half fed / To cold-tea streams [...] no Bunters led.
at bunter, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 19: Wearied Cloyers, who recline In grassy fields suburbian all day-light, And snore away the filching toils of night.
at cloyer, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 7: We, good fellows both, here haply meet, Thou from the College ’scaped, I from the Fleet.
at college, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 19: Wearied Cloyers, who recline In grassy fields suburbian all day-light, And snore away the filching toils of night.
at filch, v.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 9: The feeding kids that wipers bite (A kid signifies, in the Canting Dialect, a child; and to bite the wiper is to steal the handkerchief).
at kid, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 25: I’ll pour new nectar of Made-here-a made (Made is another word for stolen).
at made, adj.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 25: When rum-rigg’d at Smithfield’s annual Shows, To Drurian Nymphs we pay our solemn vows.
at nymph, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 29: I two prancers snaffled.
at prancer, n.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 25: And when, the rascal prig-nappers to shun, In rags disguis’d o’er rural fields we run.
at prig-napper (n.) under prig, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 25: When rum-rigg’d at Smithfield’s annual Shows, To Drurian Nymphs we pay our solemn vows.
at rum, adv.
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 17: Poor miserable tiff, thick, small, and stale.
at tiff, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 15: Herds of city Saints elected, As Bell-weathers and Bulls, for noise respected [...] who from their tubs Make bulls in praise of Schism and Calves-head clubs.
at tub, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 13: No crutch’d up Quadroped in greatest need, Tasted one dram, nor touch’d Virginian weed.
at weed, n.1
[UK] Pope Mother Gin 9: The feeding kids that wipers bite (A kid signifies, in the Canting Dialect, a child; and to bite the wiper is to steal the handkerchief).
at draw a/the wiper (v.) under wiper, n.
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