1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 38: A young gallows bird, eh? – a marked criminal, eh?at gallows-bird, n.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 58: But I got off, blast their eyes, and no thanks to any of them.at blast someone’s eyes! (excl.) under blast, v.1
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: D’ye suppose they’d pardon me, arter choking a woman to death [...] and braining her two children with the fire shovel?at brain, v.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 29: None but tip-top crossmen visited the Golden Balls – vulgar thieves were [...] carefully excluded.at cross-man (n.) under cross, adj.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: Laughter and applause, during which Bill ‘dampened his dust’ and renewed his quid.at damp the dust (v.) under damp, v.1
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: Just as I was prepared to dance the hempen hornpipe, up comes a chap and hands a slip of paper to the sheriff.at dance, v.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: One Arm’d Bill [...] said [...] ‘although I’ve got no larnin’, and have lost one of my grappling-irons, I feel myself among pals and brothers’.at grappling iron, n.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too, / A gallus jerve, a pair of squills so polish’d and so new.at jerve, n.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: The lushes had to suffer when I caught them on the snooze.at lush, n.1
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too, / A gallus jerve, a pair of squills so polish’d and so new.at squills, n.
1851 G. Thompson Jack Harold 38: Mr. Piggot kicked our hero heavily in the side, and ordered him to go to the door and take in his ‘swill,’ as he facetiously termed it.at swill, n.