‘Those Ladies Queams’ in Black Joke 9: Dame nature she form’d me / As smooth as any deal board, / My lot in every place, / By long Jok-s was to feel bor’d; / The Coves now are with me, / I swear this is ’cause d’ye see, / I now have got split vhiskers. [...] I’m known by all the friskers / To have about my parts, / A pair of prime split vhiskers.at split beaver (n.) under beaver, n.1