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Tales of the Old Regime 44: This one of Convict James Tinsley, alias Luffy Ned, alias ‘Mary Jane,’ touched him more deeply still.at mary ann, n.1
Tales of the Old Regime 44: This one of Convict James Tinsley, alias Luffy Ned, alias ‘Mary Jane,’ touched him more deeply still. Tales of the Old Regime 202: All the male prisoners were locked up till six the next day, so that the women and children, who had been immured in their ‘black hole’ all the livelong day, could take a brief two hours of exercise.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
Tales of the Old Regime 94: A good start was everything in a ‘bolt’.at bolt, n.1
Tales of the Old Regime 105: We’re a-goin’ to bolt together. One can’t go ’lone.at bolt, v.
(ref. to 1827) Tales of the Old Regime 159: Here it was that one of the ‘bolters,’ advertised [...] in the Sydney Gazette, in the year 1827, was found one morning, in the early seventies, stark-stiff dead.at bolter, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 56: You’ve got ’nuft to buy your dicky-man sum’at [...] I ain’t no time to waste a-lookin’ for hussies’ men!at dicky-man, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 59: A fawney – a wedding ring? Ain’t you a honest ’ooman?at fawney, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 219: He was a ‘fiver’.at fiver, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 16: It was only a question of time for him to take to the ‘flash’ business again.at flash, adj.
Tales of the Old Regime 9: Neither was Mr. Pounce ignorant of the process of manufacturing ‘flash ’uns’.at flash note (n.) under flash, adj.
Tales of the Old Regime 176: Dillon had been flung out into the street after the theft, hocussed, drunk.at hocus, adj.
Tales of the Old Regime 174: The ‘dump’ was worth 1s. 3d. currency. The ‘holey dollar,’ 5s.at holy dollar (n.) under holy, adj.
Tales of the Old Regime 211: Oh, my Jack Ketch beauties, ye’re going to be turned off are ye.at Jack Ketch, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 93: Bunt ‘jacked-up’ on half rations, and fell ill.at jack up, v.1
Tales of the Old Regime 219: Blake was a ‘niner’.at niner, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 53: The turnip stealers, the pocket-handkerchief ‘nippers’.at nipper, n.1
Tales of the Old Regime 115: Night after night they heard the verbal tick-off of the Lieutenant-in-Command.at tick off, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 211: Oh, my Jack Ketch beauties, ye’re going to be turned off are ye.at turn off, v.1
Tales of the Old Regime 10: The publican looked up to the ‘penman’.at penman (n.) under pen, n.1
Tales of the Old Regime 213: We’re all a-stuffed in ’ere till the scragger comes along for you fellows.at scragger, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 219: Pedder was a ‘sevener’.at sevener (n.) under seven, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 217: Pedder [...] had organized that movement which was popularly known in Norfolk Island and Port Arthur as a ‘slant,’ that is, he had planned a murder or mutiny on purpose to obtain a trial in Hobart or Sydney.at slant, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 41: The buckets of ‘smiggins’ were waiting to satiate their appetites.at smiggins, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 143: We were all sent to a place called a tench and there we were signed off to Defferent masters.at tench, n.2
Tales of the Old Regime 213: Until you fellers are topped off we’ve got to stay here.at top, v.3
Tales of the Old Regime 53: The turnip stealers, the pocket-handkerchief ‘nippers’.at turnip, n.
Tales of the Old Regime 8: Josephs and his friend and ‘worker-off.’ [Ibid.] 13: Mr. Pounce lowered his voice two tones, ‘Flash ’uns. You print, I’ll work off.’.at work off (v.) under work, v.
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