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[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 445: A poultry stealer. A beaker-hunter.
at beaker-hunter (n.) under beaker, n.2
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: A silk handkerchief. A billy.
at billy, n.3
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 447: Coiners = bit-makers.
at bit-maker (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: Booked, caught, taken, or disposed of.
at book, v.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: A shilling. Breake-leg.
at breakyleg, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: To entice another to play – buttoner.
at buttoner, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: Gift of Clothes – Cant of Togs.
at cant of togs (n.) under cant, n.2
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: To steal a muff – To free a cat.
at cat, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (2nd edn) 444: A shop – Chovey.
at chovey, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: To alter the maker’s name in a watch – to christen a yack.
at christen, v.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 446: Inside skirt coat pocket – Patent Coat.
at patent coat, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 445: play cocum To be cunning, wary, or sly.
at play cocum (v.) under cocum, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 4445: To inform = to come it.
at come it, v.2
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 445: To pick pockets: to buzz, buzzmen, clyfakers, conveyancers.
at conveyancer, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: Snatching reticules from a carriage – culing.
at culing, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: To rob a till [...] draw a damper.
at draw a damper (v.) under damper, n.2
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: Shilling, Deaner, also twelver.
at deener, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 444: Five-pound notes, finnips, ten-pound notes, double finnips.
at double fin, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: To steal from shop doors – to pull down.
at pull down, v.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: Sixpence, downer, also sprat.
at downer, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 444: Thieves: Family-men.
at family man (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 444: Five-pound notes, finnips, ten-pound notes, double finnips.
at finnip, n.
[UK] in J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant Long-tailed finnips Large notes.
at long-tailed finnip, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 447: To lift a window, to fly a window.
at fly, v.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant n.p.: A fly, A policeman.
at fly, n.3
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: To steal a muff – To free a cat.
at free, v.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 447: Going without shoes, gadding the hoof.
at gad the hoof (v.) under hoof, n.
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd. edn) 455: A till – a lob.
at lob, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 444: To steal a muff. To free a cat.
at muff, n.1
[UK] J. Archbold Magistrate’s Assistant 445: Robbing in shops by two – Palming.
at palming, n.
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