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Thieving Detected 43: Flying the Basket. [...] there is not a stage coach or machine which comes to London, but hath been robbed in this manner.at fly the basket (v.) under basket, n.1
Thieving Detected 43: Flying the Basket. [...] there is not a stage coach or machine which comes to London, but hath been robbed in this manner. Thieving Detected 27: A Sneak can, with the help of his Betty (an instrument turned up at one end like a hook) open almost any lock in England.at betty, n.
Thieving Detected 30: When the Cap hath finished his story of him, the Kid comes in with a pack of cards [...] When the Kid has lost about ten or twelve guineas, he refuses to play any more with the Cap, he being so lucky – But I’ll play, says he, with either of these gentlemen. – Well are you agreeable says the Picker-up to the Flat.at capper, n.1
Thieving Detected 10: A crow soon forces them open.at crow, n.1
Thieving Detected 13: The Drag Lay. It would be impossible to enumerate the many losses the proprietors of waggons have sustained.at drag lay (n.) under drag, n.1
Thieving Detected 28: The Drop [...] There is not a fair in England but some of these villains are to be found at it, and so successful are they in their nefarious schemes, that five hundred pounds are as soon got by them.at drop, n.1
Thieving Detected 26: The Drop Cull makes the Sneak acquainted with the whole: if the Sneak happens to have success at either of these inns, he makes the other a present.at drop cull (n.) under drop, v.4
Thieving Detected 9: The second way is with a dub, (a name for a false key).at dub, n.1
Thieving Detected 24: The evening sneak steals out when the daylight begins to disappear.at evening sneak (n.) under evening, n.
Thieving Detected 30: Oh no! says the Flat, I beg you’ll come in gentlemen.at flat, n.2
Thieving Detected 19: There is generally two goes together, one is the Knuckle, and the other the Gammon, (the person who Stalls for him). [Ibid.] 50: One of them, which they call the Gammon, takes off the attention of the shop-keeper.at gammon, n.1
Thieving Detected 40: Starring the Glaze [...] The method of acting is to cut a square piece of glass out of a window or shop-board, big enough to take what is wanted.at star the glaze (v.) under glaze, n.
Thieving Detected 48: The Lift or Hoist. Shoplifting, of all the other branches of thieving, is the most pernicious and destructive to tradesmen.at hoist, n.
Thieving Detected 21: The Jump [...] a great number of rogues then gets lurking about [...] every window they come near that has no light in, they open, if it happens not to be fastened; they then take what is most valuable out of that room, and very often go into others in the same house, acting in the same manner by them, and when they have got as much as they think can be conveniently carried off, they let themselves out at the street door, and go off uninterrupted with their booty.at jump, n.
Thieving Detected 30: The Picker-up immediately takes him to a house [...] When they have been there a little while, in comes the Kid and Cap, they ask pardon for the intrusion, and pretend to go out again; if the Flat don’t speak the Picker-up says, we are not on any business of consequence, you don’t therefore disturb us.at kid, n.1
Thieving Detected 3: The other ways of working the Kidd is but newly invented.at kid lay (n.) under kid, n.1
Thieving Detected 17: Those only are stiled Knuckles who confine themselves to the picking pockets of watches, snuff-boxes, pocket-books, and money. [Ibid.] 20: Some of the best Knuckles are women.at knuckle, n.
Thieving Detected 49: It is customary for a good Lift to get in the course of four or five hours, half a dozen cards of lace, two or three whole pieces of linen, cambrick or muslin, ten or twelve roles of ribbon, jewellery goods a great number.at lift, n.
Thieving Detected 48: The Lift or Hoist. Shoplifting, of all the other branches of thieving, is he most pernicious and destructive to tradesmen.at lift, n.
Thieving Detected 8: House-Breaking, or, in the flash language, to Mill a Kin [sic].at mill a ken (v.) under mill, v.1
Thieving Detected 24: The morning sneak goes out early in the morning, and those shops he sees with no one in, he makes bold to take the advantage of.at morning sneak (n.) under morning, n.
Thieving Detected 29: The first is the Picker-up; his business is to go up to the countryman whom they mean to do, enter into conversation with him.at picker-up, n.
Thieving Detected 41: The Pinch or Truck.at pinch, n.
Thieving Detected 39: Touching the Rattler [...] This method of robbing is chiefly followed by those who go upon the Drag Lay.at rattler, n.
Thieving Detected 25: I’ve several rum kins [sic] for you to do upon the ‘Sneak.’.at rum ken (n.) under rum, adj.
Thieving Detected 11: The fourth way, they stile the Rush.at rush, n.
Thieving Detected 46: Its worth at least, replies the Sharp, is fifty guineas.at sharp, n.1
Thieving Detected 23: The Sneak [...] is an old proceeding.at sneak, n.1
Thieving Detected 25: There is another kind of Sneak that confines himself to no particular time.at sneak, n.1
Thieving Detected 19: There is generally two goes together, one is the Knuckle, and the other the Gammon, (the person who Stalls for him).at stall, v.2
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