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A Faithful Narrative of the Most Wicked and Inhuman Transactions of the Bloody-Minded Gang of Thief-takers alias Thief-makers choose

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[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 33: She particularly noticed Thomas Blee, who had a long carroty Beard.
at carrotty, adj.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 64: I saw the two Chaps that robbed and beat me.
at chap, n.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 66: Somebody called out, hey Jack, where are you going? And the boy Swannick, the Prisoner, replied, that he was going to the Start for nimming a Cull.
at cull, n.1
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 57: G-d D--n you.
at god-damn, v.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 63: I saw four Fellows at the end of the Square, and they dogged me.
at dog, v.1
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 80: [letters dated 13 & 18 Jan. 1754] Dear Brother and Sister [...] I beg for God Almighty’s Sake, you would help me [...] for I am loaded with Irons, which is very troublesome to me. [...] I am very sick and weak; and this Night we are all to be double-iron’d.
at ironed, adj.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 80: [letters dated 13 & 18 Jan. 1754] Dear Brother and Sister [...] I beg for God Almighty’s Sake, you would help me [...] for I am loaded with Irons, which is very troublesome to me. [...] I am very sick and weak; and this Night we are all to be double-iron’d.
at irons, n.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 56: So great was the Mob, that the Peace-Officers found it impossible to protect the Prisoners.
at mob, n.2
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 66: Somebody called out, hey Jack, where are you going? And the boy Swannick, the Prisoner, replied, that he was going to the Start for nimming a Cull in his Eye.
at nim, v.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 66: As we were going with the two Prisoners to Newgate, somebody called out, hey Jack, where are you going? And the boy Swannick, the Prisoner, replied, that he was going to the Start for nimming a Cull.
at Start, the, n.
[UK] J. Cox Narrative of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers 66: The boy Swannick, the Prisoner, replied, that he was going to the Start for nimming a Cull in the Eye; then swore he wished he had cut off his Head, for then he would not have whidelled again.
at whiddle, v.
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