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The Cloister and the Hearth choose

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[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 21: Wheeling an ‘asker’ in a barrow, is not that work?
at asker, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ whipjalks,’ [sic.] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ ‘swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts’.
at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) I 204: I ne’er minced (dissected) ape nor gallows-bird.
at gallows-bird, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 21: What with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we’ll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.
at dacha, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ whipjalks,’[sic] ‘dommerars,’ [...] ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts’.
at dommerer, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) I 45: This was what in modern days is called a draw. It was a guess, put boldly forth as fact, to elicit by the young man’s answer whether he had been there lately or not.
at draw, n.1
[UK] C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1920) 347: She and her father had made a moonlight flit on’t this day sennight, and that some thought the devil had flown away with them.
at moonlight flit, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ ‘whipjalks,’ [sic] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ ‘jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ ‘swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts’.
at glimmerer, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ whipjalks, [sic] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts’.
at jarkman, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Whom in England we call ‘shivering Jemmies’.
at shivering jemmy, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) I 276: Ods bodikins! what, have you dug him up.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 26: ‘Curse the quiens!’ [...] ‘Quiens? why that was dogs.’.
at quien, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ ‘whipjalks,’ [sic] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ ‘jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts.’.
at ruffler, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 21: What with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we’ll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee. [Ibid.] 24: It had rained kicks all day in lieu of ‘saltees,’ and that is pennies.
at saltee, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ ‘whipjalks,’ [sic] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ ‘jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ ‘swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts’.
at swadder, n.
[UK] (con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) II 33: Come with me to the ‘rotboss’ there, and I’ll show thee all our folk and their lays [...] ‘Rufflers,’ ‘whipjalks,’ [sic] ‘dommerars,’ ‘glymmerars,’ ‘jarkmen,’ ‘patricos,’ ‘swadders,’ ‘autem morts,’ and ‘walking morts.’.
at walking mort (n.) under walking, adj.
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