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The Tailors’ Revolt choose

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[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 8: At this each bold veteran of the band / Threw down his ’backey-pipe and made a stand.
at bacca-pipe (n.) under bacca, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 6: White Conduit-House, / Well known resort for cits and folks in trade.
at cit, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 12: What! do you think I’ll heed your vile decree? / Command your own d--d Dungs, but never me.
at dung, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 7: snip cried aloud, ‘Ah, ha, I’ll cut a flash.’.
at cut a flash (v.) under flash, n.1
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 18: There are no sneaking dungs or milksops here; / No, they’re such flints as gen’rals might desire, / Heroic flints, aye flints too full of fire.
at flint, n.1
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 6: His waistcoat crimson, – and report so tells, / Blue ’twas that grac’d his inexpressibles.
at inexpressibles, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt iv: We should have [...] The knights of the Pestle against the ‘doctor and apothecary’.
at ...the pestle under knight of the..., n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 20: But much I fear that they are in the right, / And we shall all be sent to quod to-night.
at quod, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 17: The landylady knock’d down, and smugg’d her light.
at smug, v.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 12: And he’s a sneaker who don’t aid our cause!
at sneaker, n.2
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 5: snip, a member of the Tailor weal, / Resolv’d to take a walk to Pentonville.
at snip, n.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 21: It can’t, it can’t be true – / If ’tis, why I am – in a precious stew.
at stew, n.1
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 7: I’ll to the Apple Tree [...] For there they’ll tick, and put it on the slate.
at tick, v.1
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 18: Ah, my tight lads, with rage I see you burn.
at tight, adj.
[UK] ‘Jeremy Swell, Gent.’ Tailors’ Revolt 13: ‘Monster!’ skirt cried, and tipp’d a knowing sneer.
at tip, v.3
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