| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Punishment |
| Punishment : Branding |
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| BADGE | is used in a Canting Sense, for Burning in the Hand or Cheek (as it used to be) as he has got his Badge and piked away; He has been burned in the Hand, etc. and is just set at Liberty. | 1737 |
| BADGE | A term used for one burned in the hand. He has got his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, and is at liberty. Cant. | 1811 |
| CHARACTERED | Burnt in the Hand; as, They have pawnd the Character upon him; i.e. They have burnt the Rogue in the Hand. | 1737 |
| CHARACTERED, or LETTERED | Burnt in the hand. They have palmed the character upon him; they have burned him in the hand, CANT.--See LETTERED. | 1811 |
| JUGGLERS BOX | The engine for burning culprits in the hand. CANT. | 1811 |
| Punishment : Fetters |
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| BARNACLES | the Irons worn in Goal by Felons. A Pair of Spectacles is also called Barnacles; as I saw the Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled, making out the Coves Dispatches, i.e. I saw the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on making out his Mittimus. | 1737 |
| BODY-SLANGS | See Slangs. | 1819 |
| BUCKLES | Fetters. | 1811 |
| CHIVE his Darbies | To saw asunder his Irons or Fetters. | 1737 |
| CLINKERS | the Irons Felons wear in Goals. | 1737 |
| CLINKERS | A kind of small Dutch bricks; also irons worn by prisoners; a crafty fellow. | 1811 |
| CRAMP RINGS | Bolts, shackles, or fetters. CANT. | 1811 |
| CRAMP-RINGS | Bolts or Shackles. | 1737 |
| DARBIES | Irons, Shackles or Fetters. | 1737 |
| DARBIES | Fetters. CANT. | 1811 |
| DARBIES | fetters. | 1819 |
| GRAPPLING IRONS | Handcuffs. | 1811 |
| KINGS PLATE | Fetters. | 1811 |
| RUFFLES | Handcuffs. CANT. | 1811 |
| SHERIFFS BRACELETS | Handcuffs. | 1811 |
| SLANGS | fetters, or chains of any kind used about prisoners; body-slangs are body-irons used on some occasions. | 1819 |
| Punishment : Pillory |
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| BABES IN THE WOOD | Criminals in the stocks, or pillory. | 1811 |
| HARMANS | the Stocks. | 1737 |
| HARMANS | The stocks. CANT. | 1811 |
| NAB THE STOOP | to stand in the pillory. CANT. | 1811 |
| NORWAY NECKCLOTH | The pillory, usually made of Norway fir. | 1811 |
| NUT-CRACKERS | a Pillory, The Cull lookt thro the Nut-crackers, i.e. The Rogue stood in the Pillory. | 1737 |
| NUTCRACKERS | The pillory: as, The cull peeped through the nutcrackers. | 1811 |
| OVERSEER | A man standing in the pillory, is, from his elevated situation, said to be made an overseer. | 1811 |
| PENANCE BOARD | The pillory. | 1811 |
| PENNANCE BOARD | a Pillory. | 1737 |
| PICTURE FRAME | The sheriffs picture frame; the gallows or pillory. | 1811 |
| RUFF | An ornament formerly worn by men and women round their necks. Wooden ruff; the pillory. | 1811 |
| STOOP | The pillory. The cull was served for macing and nappd the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and put in the pillory. | 1811 |
| STOOP-NAPPERS, or OVERSEERS OF THE NEW PAVEMENT | Persons set in the pillory. CANT. | 1811 |
| SURVEYOR OF THE PAVEMENT | One standing in the pillory. | 1811 |
| WOOD | To look through the wood; to stand in the pillory. Up to the arms in wood; in the pillory. | 1811 |
| WOODEN PARENTHESIS | the pillory. | 1811 |
| WOODEN RUFF | The pillory. See NORWAY NECKCLOTH. | 1811 |
| WOODEN-RUFF | a Pillory. He wore the Wooden-ruff; He stood in the Pillory. | 1737 |
| Punishment : Prisons and Imprisonment |
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| BASTILE | generally called, for shortness, the Steel; a cant name for the House of Correction, Cold-BathFields, London. | 1819 |
| BLOCK-HOUSES | Prisons, Houses of Correction, etc. | 1737 |
| BOARDING SCHOLARS | Bridewell-Birds. | 1737 |
| BOARDING SCHOOL | Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of correction. | 1811 |
| BOARDING-SCHOOL | Bridewell [[prob. rdg; orig. Briedwell]] or New Prison, or any Work-house, or House of Correction, for Vagrants, Beggars and Villains, etc. | 1737 |
| CITY COLLEGE | Newgate. | 1811 |
| COLLEGE | Newgate; New College, the Royal-Exchange. | 1737 |
| COLLEGE | Newgate or any other prison. New College: the Royal Exchange. Kings College: the Kings Bench prison. He has been educated at the steel, and took his last degree at college; he has received his education at the house of correction, and was hanged at Newgate. | 1811 |
| ELLENBOROUGH LODGE | The Kings Bench Prison. Lord Ellenboroughs teeth; the chevaux de frize round the top of the wall of that prison. | 1811 |
| FAIR | A set of subterraneous rooms in the Fleet Prison. | 1811 |
| HATCHES | as, Under the Hatches, in Trouble or Prison. | 1737 |
| HATCHES | Under the hatches; in trouble, distress, or debt. | 1811 |
| IN LOBS POUND | laid by the Heels, or clapd up in Jail. | 1737 |
| IRON PARENTHESIS | a prison. | 1811 |
| IRON-DOUBLET | a Prison. | 1737 |
| JAYL BIRDS | Prisoners. | 1737 |
| LOBS POUND | A prison. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras, explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting preacher, who used to hold forth when conventicles were prohibited, and had made himself a retreat by means of a trap door at the bottom of his pulpit. Once being pursued by the officers of justice, they followed him through divers subterraneous passages, till they got into a dark cell, from whence they could not find their way out, but calling to some of their companions, swore they had got into Lob | 1811 |
| LUDS BULWARK | Ludgate Prison. | 1737 |
| LUDS BULWARK | Ludgate prison. | 1811 |
| NASK | or Naskin; a Prison or Bridewell. The new Nask, Clerkenwell Bridewell: Tuttle Nask, the Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields: He napt it at the Nask; he was lasht at Bridewell. | 1737 |
| NASK, or NASKIN | A prison or bridewell. The new nask; Clerkenwell bridewell. Tothil-fields nask; the bridewell at Tothil-fields. CANT. | 1811 |
| NAVY OFFICE | The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison. | 1811 |
| NEWMANS HOTEL | Newgate. | 1811 |
| NEWMANS TEA GARDENS | Newgate. | 1811 |
| QUEER KEN | A prison. CANT. | 1811 |
| QUEERE-KEN | an ill House, a Prison or a place of Correction. | 1737 |
| QUOD | Newgate; also a Prison, tho generally for Debt. The Poor Dabs in the Quod. the poor Rogue is in Limbo. | 1737 |
| QUOD | Newgate, or any other prison. The dabs in quod; the poor rogue is in prison. | 1811 |
| REPOSITORY | A lock-up or spunging-house, a gaol. Also livery stables where horses and carriages are sold by auction. | 1811 |
| RUBS US TO THE WHIT | He sends us to Newgate. | 1737 |
| RUMBO | a Prison or Goal. | 1737 |
| SHERIFFS HOTEL | A prison. | 1811 |
| SHOP | a Prison. | 1737 |
| SHOP | A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned. | 1811 |
| SHOPT | imprisond. | 1737 |
| SPRING-ANKLE WAREHOUSE | Newgate, or any other gaol: IRISH. | 1811 |
| SPUNGING-HOUSE | a By-prison. | 1737 |
| START, or THE OLD START | Newgate: he is gone to the start, or the old start. CANT. | 1811 |
| STONE DOUBLET | a Prison. | 1737 |
| STONE JUG | Newgate, or any other prison. | 1811 |
| TANGIER | A room in Newgate, where debtors were confined, hence called Tangerines. | 1811 |
| TRIB | A prison: perhaps from tribulation. | 1811 |
| TRIP | a Prison. He is in Trib, for Tribulation; He is laid by the Heels, or in a great deal of Trouble. | 1737 |
| WHIT | Newgate. As, Five Rum-padders, are rubd in the Darkmans and of the Whit, and are pikd into the Deuseaville; Five Highway-men in the Night broke newgate, and are gone into the Country. | 1737 |
| WHIT | [i. e. Whittingtons.] Newgate. Cant.--Five rum-padders are rubbed in the darkmans out of the whit, and are piked into the deuseaville; five highwaymen broke out of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country. | 1811 |
| WHITTINGTONS COLLEGE | Newgate; built or repaired by the famous lord mayor of that name. | 1811 |
| WIT | Newgate, New Prison, or Bridewell. The same as Whit. | 1737 |
| Punishment : Related Terms |
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| BONED | Seized. apprehended, taken up by a constable. CANT. | 1811 |
| BONED | taken in custody, apprehended; Tell us how you was boned, signifies, tell us the story of your apprehension; a common request among fellow-prisoners in a jail, &c., which is readily complied with in general; and the various circumstances therein related afford present amusement, and also useful hints for regulating their future operations, so as to avoid the like misfortune. | 1819 |
| BOWLED OUT | a man who has followed the profession of thieving for some time, when he is ultimately taken, tried, and convicted, is said to be bowled out at last. To bowl a person out, in a general sense, means to detect him in the commission of any fraud or peculation, which he has hitherto practised without discovery. | 1819 |
| DONE | convicted ; as, he was done for a crack, he was convicted of house-breaking. | 1819 |
| DRAKED | ducked; a discipline sometimes inflicted on pickpockets at fairs, races, &c. | 1819 |
| GRAB | to seize; apprehend; take in custody; to make a grab at any thing, is to snatch suddenly, as at a gentleman's watch-chain, &c. | 1819 |
| GRAB'D | taken, apprehended. | 1819 |
| HOBBLED | taken up, or in custody; to hobble a plant, is to spring it. See Plant. | 1819 |
| MARINATED | transported into some Foreign Plantation. | 1737 |
| MARRIED | Persons chained or handcuffed together, in order to be conveyed to gaol, or on board the lighters for transportation, are in the cant language said to be married together. | 1811 |
| NIBB'D | taken in custody. | 1819 |
| NUBBING-KEN | the Sessions House. | 1737 |
| OLD DOSS | Bridewell. | 1811 |
| PULL or PULL UP | to accost; stop; apprehend ; or take iato custody; as to pull up a Jack, is to stop a post-chaise on the highway. To pull a man, or have him pulled, is to cause his apprehension for some offence; and it is then said, that Mr. Pullen is concerned. | 1819 |
| PULLED, PULLED UP or IN PULL | Taken in custody; in confinement. | 1819 |
| SCURF'D | taken in custody. | 1819 |
| Punishment : Transportation |
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| BELLOWSER | Transportation for life: i.e. as long. | 1811 |
| BELLOWSER | See Wind. | 1819 |
| WIND | a man transported for his natural life, is said to be lag'd for his wind, or to have knap'd a winder, or a bellowser, according to the humour of the speaker. | 1819 |
| Punishment : Whipping |
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| AIR AND EXERCISE | He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the carts tail; or, as it is generally, though more vulgarly, expressed, at the carts a-se. | 1811 |
| CARTED-WHORE | whippd publickly, and packd out of Town. | 1737 |
| CARTING | The punishment formerly inflicted on bawds, who were placed in a tumbrel or cart, and led through a town, that their persons might be known. | 1811 |
| FLOGG | to Whip | 1737 |
| FLOGGER | A horsewhip. CANT. | 1811 |
| FLOGGING STAKE | The whipping-post. | 1811 |
| FLOGGING-STAKE | a whipping Post. | 1737 |
| FLY-FLAPPED | Whipt in the stocks, or at the carts tail. | 1811 |
| GUNNERS DAUGHTER | To kiss the gunners daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishing boys on board a ship of war. | 1811 |
| HUED | severely lashd or floggd. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, The Rogue was severely lashd in Bridewell. | 1737 |
| JIGGER | A whipping-post. CANT. | 1811 |
| NAB THE TEAZE | to be privately whipped. CANT. | 1811 |
| SCROBY | To be tipt the scroby; to be whipt before the justices. | 1811 |
| To SHOVE THE TUMBLER | To be whipped at the carts tail. | 1811 |
