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The Whole Art of Thieving and Defrauding Discovered choose

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[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at baggage-man (n.) under baggage, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at beaker, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving n.p.: All’s bowman all is safe.
at boman, adj.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving n.p.: A boman prig A bold or dexterous thief.
at bowman-prig (n.) under bowman, adj.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving 34: They [i.e. gypsies] are great Priggers of Caunes and Bucket-chats, that is, sheep and fowl.
at bucket chat (n.) under bucket, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at buckteen, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving 31: Horse Stealers, they go together always the day before, to look over the grounds for a good Prad or Prads, then at darky they buss them out of the ground, that is, at night they steal the horses.
at buss, v.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at bustrap, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving.
at buxom, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving 8: The Art of Old Nobb, called Pricking in the Girdle. There are generally four persons concerned, that is, the sailor, called a Legg Cull, to pinch the Nobb; the next is the Capper, who always keeps with the sailor: and two pickers up, or Money Droppers, to bring in Flats.
at capper, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at carrier, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving [n.p.] A case, or a flash ken a house frequented by thieves.
at case, n.3
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at catsing, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at chant, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at chant, v.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at chatty, adj.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at chink, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at chiv, v.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at clogments, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving n.p.: The waggon and coach lay stealing out goods as they pass along.
at coach lay, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving 31: They [...] go thirty or forty miles that night, towards the next gaff to fence them [i.e. horses], that is, to the next fair to sell them, and when they come there they sell them to a coaping cull, that is, a horse jockey they know.
at coaping-cull, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving.
at dark glim (n.) under dark, adj.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753].
at stock-drawers, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at driman, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving.
at hinged dub, n.
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at dub-cull (n.) under dub, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving.
at dub-lay (n.) under dub, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753].
at dunny, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving .
at fam-strings (n.) under fam, n.1
[UK] Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753].
at fencer, n.
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