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[UK] Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/2: I see a countryman leading a black colt — wasn’t he a burster, he had the greatest withers ever.
at buster, n.1
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/2: [I] crammed myself sufficiently with Greek, Latin and algebra, to pass muster.
at cram, v.
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/2: He kicked the cart all to flitters.
at flitter, v.
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/2: I was so arnest [sic] to pick up a flat I hadn’t looked.
at pick up a flat (v.) under pick up, v.
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/1: The old brown hoss [...] a purty good one, but a leetle rusty at times.
at rusty, adj.1
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 23 Mar. 2/5: They mediatated also [...] taking money out of Mr Ryan’s [cash] drawer, which in the seminary slang described ‘turning the cooney’ and ‘bleeding the drawer’.
at bleed, v.1
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 23 Mar. 2/5: Tho only witness was James Collins, evidently one of the notorious ‘Hagan seminary,’ who bad been told by the parties accused that they had stolen the tobacco.
at seminary, n.
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 13 Aug. 3/2: The assault appeared to have arisen out of a slanging match between the litigants.
at slanging match (n.) under slang, v.1
[UK] Ulster Gaz. 7 Aug. 7/3: Two lads who [...] seem to have as little call for boots, stockings, or jacket as a toad has for a side-pocket.
at side-pocket, n.
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