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[UK] Champion 15 Apr. 110: It is recorded of Vitellius that he had nearly 10000 dishes for supper [...] Tacitus tells us of this Knight of the Trencher, that he spent upwards of seven Millions in a few Months.
at ...the trencher under knight of the..., n.
[UK] convict’s letter in Champion (Southport, Lancs) 27 Nov. 7/1: Our trade is a rattling one here [...] You must manage to do a small job and get sevenpennorth [Slang for seven years’ transportation] if you can.
at seven pennorth (n.) under seven, adj.
[UK] Champion (Southport, Lancs.) 6 Nov. 23/4: Blackwood has put up a large beam [...] against the shickery walls of the House of Peers.
at shickery, adj.1
[UK] Champion (London) 22 Jan. 5/5: He called them the rascally Radicals’ of Newcastle. Stick a pin there, ‘rascally Radicals’!
at stick a pin (in) there! (excl.) under stick, v.
[UK] Champion (London) 6 Oct. 5/2: Is not six years long enough to have the execution or non-execution of a law dependant on the will of a set of scape-gallows commissioners?
at scapegallows, n.
[UK] Champion 2 Feb. 7/1: An Area Sneak [...] persons designated as above who sneak down areas to pilfer.
at area-sneak, n.
[UK] Champion (London) 2 Feb. 7/1: It was lucky for Johnny Croppo.
at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
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