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Clerkenwell News 27 July 4/7: Man (Young Steady) wanted [...] also a stiff Lad about 15. Inquire at the Phoenix Saw Mills.at stiff, adj.
Clerkenwell News 27 July 4/7: Man (Young Steady) wanted [...] also a stiff Lad about 15. Inquire at the Phoenix Saw Mills. Clerkenwell News 9 Oct. 1/4: Sadler’s Wells Theatre Royal [...] The performance will commence with an Original Farce entitled The Bonnet Builder’s Tea Party.at bonnet-builder (n.) under bonnet, n.2
Clerkenwell News 29 Nov. 3/7: A SHOP SNEAK IN THE GOSWELL ROAD. [...] Denis Faraley. 16, well known to the police, charged with being found under the counter of the shop, 129, Goswell-road, Clerkenwell, supposed for the purpose of committing a felony.at shop-sneak (n.) under shop, n.1
Clerkenwell News 22 Mar. 4/5: The rest of the vagrant class (the itinerant) the professors of the ‘back-door cant’.at back-door cant (n.) under cant, n.2
Clerkenwell News 24 May 4/1: Another of the many cases in which a couple of sharps ‘pick up a flat’.at pick up a flat (v.) under pick up, v.
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