1995 A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 253: Yet not so blindoe that he would lapse into obscene humour.at blindo, adj.
1995 A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 108: After skimming the old one duck-and-drake across the briny.at briny, n.
1995 (con. 1942) A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 66: In a hangar smelling of peardrops, or ‘dope’ as we called it, we were given a parachute.at dope, n.1
1995 A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 28: We [...] passed rainy afternoons in a large mouldy-smelling hut at the end of the garden reading bound issues of Penny Dreadful magazines.at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
1995 A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 165: Ernie and Arthur, called on me wanting to borrow a map so that they could [...] go ‘tatting’ in their fifteen-hundredweight lorry.at tatting, n.