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[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain Bk I 28: Abbey-labourers, not Abbey-lubbers like their Successours in after-Ages, who living in Lazinesse, abused the Bounty of their patrons.
at abbey-lubber, n.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain VI 268: This Quaternion of Subscribers, have stick’n the point dead with me that all antient English Monks were Benedictines.
at dead, adv.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain Bk VI 299: My Lord, (quoth the King) presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the daies of your life. [...] The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading.
at down with one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain Bk V 36: So Gildas was silenced at the approach of the Welsh St. David, (being then but Hanse en Keldar).
at Hans-en-Kelder, n.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain n.p.: These words, ‘bread and cheese,’ were their neck-verse or shibboleth to distinguish them [F&H].
at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain Bk VI 290: The Abbot also every Saturday was to visit their beds, to see if they had not shuffled in some softer matter or purloyned some progge for themselves .
at prog, n.1
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain Bk V n.p.: Pandulf, an Italian and Pope’s legate, a perfect artist in progging for money [F&H].
at prog, v.
[UK] Fuller Church Hist. of Britain VI 268: This Quaternion of Subscribers, have stick’n the point dead with me that all antient English Monks were Benedictines.
at stick a point (v.) under stick, v.
[UK] C. Nesse Church Hist. 143: The cart at Tyburn drives away when the tippet is fast about the necks of the condemned [OED].
at tippet, n.2
[UK] C. Nesse Church Hist. 139: He turns himself off when he has tyed his Halter for his turn, and put his Head into it.
at turn off, v.1
[UK] C. Nesse Church Hist. 139: But Absaloms Mule not onely bears his Master to that place, but when all was ready for Execution, runs from under him [...] as the Cart at Tyburn drives away when the Tippet is fast about the Necks of the Condemned.
at Tyburn tippet (n.) under Tyburn, n.
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