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[US] Wash. Sentinel (DC) 12 July 2/6: Six half-horse, half-alligator men from Kentucky [...] will put to flight all the loud-talking, spread-eagle Free-soilers and Abolitionists.
at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
[US] Wash. Sentinel (DC) 17 May 1/3: A formidable instrument used by thieves in New York, and termed a ‘knuckleduster’.
at knuckleduster, n.
[US] Wash. Sentinel (DC) 12 July 2/6: Six half-horse, half-alligator men from Kentucky [...] will put to flight all the loud-talking, spread-eagle Free-soilers and Abolitionists.
at spreadeagle, adj.
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