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[US] J. Mandeville Travels 197: Thei gon all naked, saf a litylle Clout, that thei coveren with here knees and hire membres [F&H].
at member, n.1
[US] J. Mandeville Travels 242: The moste Synne that ony man may do is to pissen in thire Houses that thei dwellen in.
at piss, v.
[US] J. Mandeville Travels (translation) There is so grete hete [...] in that Ile that for the grete distress of the hete mennes balokkes hangen doun to here knees, for the gret dissolucioun of the body.
at ballocks, n.
[US] A. Burnaby Travels 36: After some time, another lady gets up, and then the first lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out; the second lady acts the same part which the first did, till somebody cuts her out.
at cut out, v.2
[US] Le Valliant Travels I 282: Fear made them imagine that they saw Caffres everywhere.
at kaffir, n.
[US] J. Barrow Travels 103: A man who in his dealings can cheat his neighbour is considered as a slim mensch, a clever fellow.
at slim, adj.
[US] J. Barrow Travels II 331: His load [...] may consist of fifteen hundred weight of butter and soap, for which he is glad to get from the retail dealers at the Cape, whom he calls Smaus or Jew, sixpence a pound [DSAE].
at smous, n.
[US] letter in Christian Schultz Travels (1810) I 24 July 20: This was the second time ‘the darnation devil had visited them’.
at darnation, adj.
[US] letter in C. Schultz Travels (1810) I 31 July 47: We made [...] what our captain called a ‘royal stew.’.
at royal, adj.
[US] C. Schultz Travels (1810) II 145: I am an alligator, half man, half horse; can whip any on the Misissippi by G-d .
at alligator (horse) (n.) under alligator, n.
[US] C. Schultz letter 13 Apr. Travels (1810) II 145: One said, ‘I am a man; I am a horse; I am a team; I can whip any man in all Kentucky, by G-d.’.
at horse, n.
[US] C. Schultz letter Travels (1810) II 13 Apr. 146: This was too much for the first, and at it they went like two bulls.
at at it under it, n.1
[US] ‘Aguecheek’ [C. Fairbanks] Travels 329: Needy wantonness displaying its rouge and Attleborough jewelry all the more boldly because it feels that the ban of society is upon it!
at Attleborough, adj.
[US] ‘Artemus Ward’ Travels (1866) 180: We air goin’ right straight through in these here clothes, we air! We ain’t goin’ to rag out till we git to Nevady!
at rag out, v.2
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