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Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage choose

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[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 221: He still came to the scratch to receive Surley’s knocks, / Which removed all the tools from his domino-box.
at box of dominoes (n.) under box of..., n.
[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 221: He at last was so punished, and queered in the crummy.
at crummy, n.1
[UK] Egan ‘A Modern Mill’ Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 220: Coster-mongers in drags went to witness the slaughter.
at drag, n.1
[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 220: Beat almost out of time, quite abroad in the garret, / His power exhausted.
at abroad in the garret (adj.) under garret, n.
[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 220: Next he starred magog’s glaze, and well scuttled his nob.
at star the glaze (v.) under glaze, n.
[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 220: In short, ’twas remarked by Gas, Randall, and Sutton, / That they never before had beheld such a glutton.
at glutton, n.
[UK] ‘A Modern Mill’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. (1827) 221: His head-rails displaced, and in chancery his head.
at head rails (n.) under head, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 45: He seldom let the first round pass without drawing the cork of his antagonist.
at draw a cork, v.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 179: [of a woman] Vat a nice article! Vat a prime piece!
at article, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 184: The larks did not subside until jemmy and his amiable bride were put to bed as drunk as Chloe!
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 71: Mr. Phillips is neither au fait, con amore, up, down, fly, or awake, upon so rough a subject.
at awake, adj.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 47: He [...] had then bagged eighty-eight brace of birds and five pheasants.
at bag, v.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 200: Spring stopp’d him again, hit him over the beak.
at beak, n.2
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 130: Master Broughton, then you are a bear to-day.
at bear, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 178: A Belcher wipe drawn tight across her shoulders.
at belcher, n.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 2: Let us [...] see which has the best bit of blood.
at bit of blood (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 294: The cutter-lads with their blue-striped camesas and bits of straw.
at bit of straw (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] ‘The Black Fogle’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 34: Hudson may puff away, / Sampson may blarney gay.
at blarney, v.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 70: We have copied the learned gentleman’s philippic against milling [...] it was anything but judgement in blowing up his own client, i.e. as a prize-fighter.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 183: Blowsey Suke, in the rear, was the bridesmaid to her friend betsey.
at blowse, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 74: ‘Seven’s the main,’ Tom cried; ‘here’s the blunt, who’ll see it?’.
at blunt, n.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 190: Mr. Bonniface soon blustered up to Bob telling him [...] he would send him to the cage.
at boniface, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 288: [They] may get the same soup for their supper [i.e. execution], if too bouncible.
at bounceable, adj.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 192: Like all the ‘peep-o’-day boys,’ nothing is yet the matter with his constitution.
at peep o’ day boy, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 190: hit-a-body had scarcely entered the coffee-room before the breeze began.
at breeze, n.1
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 191: You fat-headed buffer.
at buffer, n.3
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 180: Many a half-bull has betsey slid into her clie.
at half-a-bull (n.) under bull, n.3
[UK] ‘The Black Fogle’ in Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 34: So long for your Champion his ensign be wearing, / ’Tis defended and held by a good bunch of fives.
at bunch of fives, n.
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 180: She possessed the gift of the gab [...] and, amongst her equals, was viewed as as an out-and-out chaffer.
at chaffer, n.2
[UK] Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 202: Such a horse would not disgrace the first gemmen’s shay in the land.
at chay, n.
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