TACKLE
a Mistress; also good Cloaths. The Cull has tipt his Tackle Rum-rigging, or has tipt his Bloss Rum Tackle; The keeping Coxcomb has given his Mistress very fine Cloaths.
a Mistress; also good Cloaths. The Cull has tipt his Tackle Rum-rigging, or has tipt his Bloss Rum Tackle; The keeping Coxcomb has given his Mistress very fine Cloaths.
Seize the Men in order to rob them.
a sort of Servants in use with the great Men in Ireland, to lull them asleep with Stories of a Cock and a Bull, &c.
as, I tell you my Tale, and my Talesman, or Author.
a Pottle or two Quart Pot.
Brokers that let out Cloaths to wear per Week, Month or Year. See Rabbit-Suckers.
a Blow; a small Tap, &c.
Geneva, Aniseed, Clove water, so called by Canters and Villains, and the Renters of the Trap, &c. in Newgate, ans other Prisons.
wretched, sorry Drink, or Hogwash.
sharp, quick, pert.
a notorious Rogue or Sharper, who sticks not to rob his Brother Rogue. Hence To catch a Tartar, is said, among the Canting Varlets, when a Rogue attacks one that he thinks a Passenger, but proves to be of this Clan of Villains, who in his Turn having overcome the Assailant, robs, plunders and binds him.
a tattered Beggar, sometimes half naked, with Design to move Charity, having better Cloaths at Home. in Tatters; in Rags. Tattered and Torn; rent and torn.
an Alarum, or striking Watch; or indeed any other Watch.
false Dice.
garish, gawdy, with Lace, or mismatched and staring Colours: A Term borrow'd from those Times when they trick'd and bedeck'd the Shrines and Altars of the Saints, as being at Emulation with each other upon that Occasion. The Votaries of St. Audery (in Isle of Ely Saint) exeeding all the rest in the Dress and Equipage of their Altar, it grew into a By-word, upon any thing very gawdy, that it was All Taudry; as much as to say, All St. Audery.
a Sword.
Sword-Stealers. The same as Wiper-Drawers. He drew the Cull's Tayle Rumly; He whipt away the Gentleman's Sword cleverly.
Ireland.
Irishmen.
Drops of the good Liquor that fall beside.
the Pumping of Bailiffs, Bums, Setters, Pick-Pockets, &c.
a very nicely educated Creature, apt to catch cold on the least Puff of Wind.
a Knight or Gentleman of a good Estate; also any rich Man.
an Estate in Land; Has the Cull got any Terra Firma? Has the Fool got any Land.
the Woman uppermost.
who make a Trade of helping People (for a Gratuity) to their lost Goods and sometimes, for Interest, or Envy, snapping the Rogues themselves, being usually in Fee with them, and acquainted with their Haunts.
farting and coughing at the same time.
in at one Ear and out at t'other.
over Shoes, over Boots.
Tyburn.
half common Ale, and half Stout or double Beer.
Three-pence.
Throat or Gullet; He siezed is Throttle: i.e. He took him by the Throat.
Three Pence. Tip me Thrums; Lend me Three Pence.
a Punishment (in Scotland) by hard squeezing or pressing of the Thumbs, to extort Confession, which stretches them prodigiously, and is very painful. In Camps, and on Board of Ships, lighted Matches are clapt between the Fingers to the same Intent.
to beat with a Stick or Cudgel.
a young Lass.
a Goose.
as, to run on Tick; To go on the Score, or Trust.
a Tosspot, or Pot-companion. A lewd Man or Woman.
a Licence.
lying with a Wench, also Drinking.
a Sword. To Tilt, to fight with a Rapier. Run a Tilt; a swift Pursuit.
Hit for Hit, Dash for Dash.
to give or lend: Tip your Lour or Cole or I'll mill ye; Give me your Money, or I'll kill ye. Tip the COle to Adam Tiler; Give your Pick-pocket Money presently to your running Comrade. Tip the Mish; Give me the Shirt. Tip me a Hog; Lend me a Shilling. Tip it all off; Drink it all off at a Draught. Don't spoil his Tip; Don't baulk his Draught. A Tub of good Tip; (for Tipple) a Cask of strong Drink. To tip off, also signifies to die.
a Fuddle-cap, or Toss pot.
almost drunk.
a Horse; also a young prim Lass.
a fine Snack, or choice Morsel.
idle, impertinent Talk.
to laugh at a Feather.
one ready to reel, at every Jog, or Blast of Wind.
a Coat.
a Gown, or Cloak. I have bit the Togemans; I have stole the Cloak. Tis a Rum Togemans lets nim it; 'Tis a good Camblet-Cloak; lets whip it off.
the Plague; also Presents from one to another; also a Farthing. Not a Token left; Not a Farthing remaining. Tom Fools token; Money.
Toledo, a Sword. Bite the Tol; Steal the Sword. A Rum Tol; A silver hilted Sword. A Queere Tol; A Brass or Steel-hilted or ordinary Sword.
a Tom Rig, or Romp.
the same as Abram-Man. Which See.
a very silly Felow.
a Dwarf or diminutive Fellow.
tedious; as Come by Tom Long the Carrier; of what is very long a coming.
a smooth, glib-tongued, insinuating Fellow.
a silly Fellow or Ninny. A meer Tony; a meer Simpleton.
an Implement fit for any Turn, the Creature of any Cause or Faction; a meer Property, or Cat's Foot.
to cheat or trick any one; also to insult. What, do you top upon me? Do you stick a little Wax to the Dice to keep them together, to get the Chance you would have? He thought to have topt upon me; He designed to have put upon, sharped, bullied, or affronted me.
a Lover of Women.
to drink. An old Toper; a staunch Drunkard. To tope it about, or Dust it about; To drink briskly about.
Drunk.
who has reach'd the Pitch and greatest Eminence in any Art; the Master, and the Cock of his Profession.
the Gallows.
the Hangman.
Bum sodder.
Irish Thieves or Rapparees.
to name or begin a new Health. Who tosts now? Who Christens the Health? An old Tost; A pert, pleasant, old Fellow.
giddy-headed, hare-brained.
to look out sharp, to be upon one's Guard. Who touts? Who looks out sharp? Tout the Culls; Eye those Folks which way they take. Do you tout and bulk, and I'll file; If you'll eye and jostlehim, I will pick his Pockets.
a Tavern or Ale-house Bar.
a Slap on the Face and a Kick on the Breech.
one that rides all the Women he meets.
a Cant Word, used to denote bad, or clipped Money: as, They have been round the Tower with it; te he Piece of Money has been clipt.
to go. Track up the Dancers; Whip up the Stairs.
to come up with any Body.
Sellers of old Shoes and Boots, between Shoemakers and Cobblers; also that turn or translate out of one Language into another.
or rather Transmigrafy, to alter or new vamp.
See Crocker.
he that draws in or wheedles a Cull, and Bites him. Trapann'd; sharp'd, ensnar'd.
a dangling Slattern.
Three Pence.
an idle She-companion.
a Prison. He is in Trib, for Tribulation; He is laid by the Heels, or in a great deal of Trouble.
Dress. In a sad Trim; dirty, undress'd. A Trim Lad; A spruce, neat, well trick'd Man.
cheating People of their Money.
to hang; also Tyburn.
hanging.
Toys and Trifles.
a Whim or Maggot.
the Belly or Guts.
a short Voyage or Journey; also an Error of the Tongue, or Pen; a Stumble, a false Step, a Miscarriage. Also a Bastard.
as, An old Trot, a sorry, base, old Woman. A Dog Trot; A pretty Pace.
Feet, usually Sheeps. Shake your Trotters; Troop off, be gone.
to saunter, loiter, or wander about.
a A great Trollop, a lusty coarse Romp.
a half Crown.
troubled, cast in Law punished.
a dirty Puzzle, an ordinary sorry Woman.
a Whore, also a Tinker's travelling Wife or Wench.
old Ware, old Stuff.
Pease.
a NoseHow fares your old Trunk? Does your Nose stand fast?
a sure Friend or Confidant.
hang'd.
a Cart. To shove the Tumbler; To be whipt at the Cart's Tail; also one that decoys, or draws others into play; and one that shews Tricks with and without a Hoop.
any cruel hard-hearted Man.
Drivers of Turkeys.
Lambeth, Southwark and Rotherhith Side of the Water.
very sharp or ill dealing in Business.
he that quits one and embraces another Party.
white or Fair-hair'd.
as In a Tweak; in a heavy Taking, much vexed or very angry.
a Shilling.
to disingage, to sunder, to snap, to break off; as, To twig the Darbies; To knock off the Irons.
half Tea, half Coffee: Likewise Brandy and Eggs mixed. Hot-Pot. Also to Eat; as, To twist lustily; To feed like a Farmer.
to eat heartily.
executed, hanged.
to hit in the Teeth.
to laugh much with little Noise; also to tremble.