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[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at bear a hand, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at indorse with a cudgel, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned to be hanged.
at knocked down for (a/the) crop, phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at like a gravedigger under like a..., phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
at rocked in a stone kitchen, phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
at break a leg, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at like a rope-dancer’s pole (with) lead at both ends under like a..., phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at simper like a frumety-kettle, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at fed with a fire-shovel, phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at jack in a box, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at squint like a bag of nails, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at christened by a baker, adj.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at like a winter’s day – short and dirty under like a..., phr.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
at all a-mort, adj.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at bing a waste, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at wry mouth and a pissen pair of breeches, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Mother [...] a bawd; mother abbess, the same.
at abbess, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at abram, adj.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at sham abram, v.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at floating academy, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at academy, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at Campbell’s academy, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at within ambs-ace of under ambs-ace, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at cap acquaintance, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at active citizens, n.
[UK] Lex. Balatronicum.
at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
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