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The Rambling Rakes choose

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[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 8: Up starts a whole Covy of Whores, with their Cully Part’ners, placing themselves to Dance.
at covey, n.1
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 13: Tyr’d with the Day’s Fatigue, and my Brains over-burthen’d with the stupifying fumes of our Fiery Devils-Piss, I fell fast a Sleep.
at devil’s piss (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 7: We took Notice of a Goggle-Eyd Jew [...] whose Habitation is not far from the Synagogue.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 6: A brace of Ladies [...] put the black Pall o’er their Fizes.
at fiz, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 8: All those numerous Intreaguers that resort there, tempting enough to break a Commandment with, or run the Risque of a Flap-Dragon.
at flapdragon, n.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 13: The Brandy, or more properly Kill-devil, being raw, my Mistress complain’d it lay very cold upon her Stomach.
at kill-devil (n.) under kill, v.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 7: Among the Dancing-Crew was several whose Tails were far lighter than their Heels.
at light, adj.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 7: She hath been in Kent-street-Lock more times that double the number of her hands and feet.
at lockup, n.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 3: Being something Indispos’d by a late Debauch [...] during of which I was as Squeamish as Newly Marrried Woman, and lap’d more Mutton-Broth, than a Coutry Dame in the Straw does Oatmeal-Caudle.
at mutton, n.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 6: We quitted the Market [...] and hasted to the Infallible Shop [...] Noted now for Nice-Peck.
at peck, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 7: [They] locks up the House, puts the Key under the Door, and there leaves poor Pill-Garlick Snoaring.
at pilgarlic, n.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 4: Their Walls Adorn’d with Piss-tubs [...] And ’tis a strong Argument, that too many have more Respect for a Pissing-Corner.
at pissing, adj.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 4: Their Walls Adorn’d with Piss-tubs [...] And ’tis a strong Argument, that too many have more Respect for a Pissing-Corner.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 5: At the same Stall was Old Split-Fig, an Adjacent Grocer.
at split fig (n.) under split, v.
[UK] N. Ward The Rambling Rakes 3: I was as Squeamish as Newly Marrried Woman, and lap’d more Mutton-Broth, than a Coutry Dame in the Straw does Oatmeal-Caudle.
at in (the) straw under straw, n.
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 12: A whole days Play at Tick-Tack.
at tick-tack, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 3: No sooner was this Fray ended, but C--- the Circuli Tap-Lash, fell a Railing at the Parvous Fishmonger .
at tap-lash (n.) under tap, n.4
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 12: My Mistress tip’d the Wink for some of her belov’d Liquor.
at tip, v.3
[UK] N. Ward Rambling Rakes 9: As soon as the Key was turn’d, the whole Family of the Rat-Castle, flock’d about us as thick as the Mob about an insnar’d Diver for Pence.
at rats’ castle (n.) under rat, n.1
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