illiards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks,
jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or
curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all
other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins,
or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company.
Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds,
margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any
thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings.
_Gigger_, a door.
_Globe_, pewter.
_Glue-pot_, a parson; from joining men and women together in matrimony.
_Glaziers_, eyes.
_Glim_, a dark lantern.
_Glimfenders_, hand-irons.
_Glim_, a candle.
_Glimstick_, a candlestick.
_Gaoler's coach_, a hurdle.
_Goose Riding_: a goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the
legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on
horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head; which if they
effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire
within the memory of persons now living.
_Grannan gold_, old hoarded coin.
_Green bag_, a lawyer.
_Grig_, a farthing.
_Gropers_, blind men.
_Gutter-lane_, the throat.
_Hammer_, a great lie, a rapper.
_Halberhead_, a silly foolish fellow.
_Half nab_, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss.
_Half-borde_ sixpence.
_Hams_, breeches.
_Hamlet_, a high constable.
_Hand-me-downs_, second-hand clothes.
_Hanktel_, a silly fellow, a mere cod's-head.
_Hansan kelder_, a jack in the box, the child in the womb, or a health to
it.
_Harman_, a constable.
_Harmanbeck_, a beadle.
_Hawk_, a sharper.
_Hazel gold_, to beat any one with a stick.
_Hearingcheats_, ears.
_Heaver_, the breast.
_Hell_, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage or remnants,
which are sometimes very large.
_Hempen widow_, one whose husband was hanged.
_Henfright_, those commanders and officers who are absolutely swayed by
their wives.
_High tide_, when the pocket is full of money.
_Hocus_, disguised in liquor, drunk.
_Hodmendods_, snails in their shells.
_Hoggrubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow.
_Hop-merchant_, a dancing-master.
_Hum-box_, a pulpit.
_Humpty-dumpty_, ale boiled with brandy.
_Hums_, persons at church.
_Huskylour_, a job, a guinea.
_Iron doublet_, a parson.
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