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[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 13 May 4/4: When Mr. Wakley, one of the radical members [...] appeared on the hustings [...] some slip-gibbet threw a halter on the hustings.
at slip-gibbet (n.) under slip, v.2
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 14 Apr. 3/6: His ‘pickers and stealers’ were unclasped and in the palm of his hand was discovered a half-sovereign.
at pickers and stealers, n.
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 18 Sept. 5/4: The defendant [...] said that they would bung the other eye up.
at bung up, v.
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 10 Mar. 3/6: Thus too, the George Canning has been changed into the George and Cannon [...] and the Elephant and Castle into the pig and Tinder-box.
at Pig and Tinder-box, n.
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 12 May 3/2: In some schools such boys are promptly nicknamed [...] Bricktop, Shorty, Beanpole.
at beanpole, n.
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 12 May 3/2: In some schools such boys are promptly nicknamed [...] Bricktop, Shorty, Beanpole.
at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 24 Mar. 7: We have the parson’s wig [...] the full-bottomed wig, the pigtail wig [...] the scratch wig, etc.
at scratch, n.2
[UK] Canterbury Jrnl 12 May 3/2: In some schools such boys are promptly nicknamed [...] Bricktop, Shorty, Beanpole.
at shorty, n.
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