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[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 92: ‘As for that,’ says Will, ‘I cou’d Sell it well enough, if I had it, but I must not be seen any where among my old Acquaintances, for I am blown, and they will all betray me.’.
at blown, adj.
[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 167: He would have Whipp’d poor Bullet-head, (so they call’d the Negro that was to be Punish’d) to Death.
at bullet-head, n.
[UK] Defoe Col. Jack (1840) 116: The subtle devil [...] found us proper fish for her hook.
at fish, n.1
[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 33: What’s that to you, said I, how ragg’d I am [...] I have Money to pay for it; but I can go where I shan’t be Huffed at for looking.
at huff, v.
[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 274: The Germans were too old for us there, they [...] would not be drawn into a narrow Pass .
at old, adj.
[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 25: We [...] got a Sculler for a Penny to carry us over the Water to St. Mary Overs Stairs where we Landed.
at water, the, n.
[UK] Defoe Hist. of Colonel Jack (1723) 188: You Wrote him an Account where you was, and by what wicked Arts you were Trapann’d.
at trapan, v.
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