| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Places |
| Places : Places |
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| ALSATIA THE HIGHER | White-Fryars; once a Privileged Place, as the Mint was lately; but suppressed, on Account of the notorious Abuses committed in it. | 1737 |
| ALSATIA THE LOWER | the Mint in Southwark. | 1737 |
| BLACK-INDIES | Newcastle, from whence the C
oals are brought. | 1737 |
| BLIND ALE-HOUSE | one fit to conceal a pursued or hunted Villain. | 1737 |
| CHELSEA | A village near London, famous for the military hospital. To get Chelsea; to obtain the benefit of that hospital. Dead Chelsea, by G-d! an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannon-ball. | 1811 |
| CHINA STREET | a cant name for Bow Street, Covent Garden. | 1819 |
| DEUSEAVILE | the Country. | 1737 |
| ESSEX STILE | A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than Stiles. | 1811 |
| FASTNESS | Boggs. | 1737 |
| FASTNESSES | Bogs. | 1811 |
| GAFF | A fair. The drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman at the fair. | 1811 |
| GAFF | a country fair; also a meeting of gamblers for the purpose of play ; any public place of amusement is liable to be called the gaff, when spoken of in flash company who know to what it alludes. | 1819 |
| GRUB STREET | A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers: hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author, who manufactures booss for the booksellers. | 1811 |
| HELL | the Place where the Taylors lay up t
heir Cabbage, or Remnants. | 1737 |
| HUMMUMS | a Bagnio. | 1737 |
| ITCH-LAND | Scotland. | 1737 |
| ITCHLAND, or SCRATCHLAND | Scotland. | 1811 |
| JACK-ADAMS PARISH | Clerkenwell. | 1737 |
| JAGUE | a Ditch. | 1737 |
| JAGUE | a Ditch. | 1737 |
| LITTLE BARBARY | Wapping. | 1737 |
| LITTLE BARBARY | Wapping. | 1811 |
| LOUSE LAND | Scotland. | 1737 |
| LOUSE LAND | Scotland. | 1811 |
| MONKERY | the country parts of England are called The Monkery. | 1819 |
| MUM GLASS | the Monument, erected at the Ci
ty Charge, in Memory of the dreadful Fire 1666, which consumed the greatest part of the City. | 1737 |
| MUM GLASS | The monument erected on Fish-street Hill, London, in memory of the great fire in 1666. | 1811 |
| PAVIOURS WORKSHOP | The street. | 1811 |
| PORRIDGE ISLAND | An alley leading from St. Martins church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks, who cut off ready-dressed meat of all sorts, and also sell soup. | 1811 |
| ROMEVILLE | London. Cant. | 1811 |
| RUFFMANS | the Woods or Bushes. | 1737 |
| RUFFMANS | The woods, hedges, or bushes. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM VILLE | See ROMEVILLE. | 1811 |
| RUM-VILLE | London | 1737 |
| SCRATCH LAND | Scotland. | 1811 |
| SHANNON | A river in Ireland: persons dipped in that river are perfectly and for ever cured of bashfulness. | 1811 |
| SKIPPER | a Barn. | 1737 |
| SKIPPER | A barn. CANT.--Also the captain of a Dutch vessel. | 1811 |
| SLEEPING-HOUSE | without Shop, Warehouse or
Cellar, only for a private Family. | 1737 |
| STARVEEM, ROBEM, AND CHEATEM | Stroud, Rochester, and Chatham; so called by soldiers and sailors, and not without good reason. | 1811 |
| TEAGUE-LAND | Ireland. | 1737 |
| TERRA-FIRMA | an Estate in Land; Has the Cu
ll got any Terra Firma? Has the Fool got any Land. | 1737 |
| TURKISH-SHORE | Lambeth, Southwark and Roth
erhith Side of the Water. | 1737 |
| URINAL OF THE PLANETS | Ireland, with us, because of its frequent and great Rains; as Heidelberg, and Cologn in Germany, have the same Name upon the same Account; also a Chamber-pot, or Glass. | 1737 |
| URINAL OF THE PLANETS | Ireland: so called from the frequent rains in that island. | 1811 |
| WHETSTONES PARK | a Lane betwixt Holbourn and Lincolns-Inn-Fields, formerly a noted Nest for Whores, now disparkd. | 1737 |
| WHETSTONES PARK | A lane between Holborn and Lincolns-inn Fields, formerly famed for being the resort of women of the town. | 1811 |
| WHIG-LAND | Scotland. | 1737 |
| WHIP-SHIRE | Yorkshire. | 1737 |
| WHIPSHIRE | Yorkshire. | 1811 |
| WISEACRES HALL | Gresham college. | 1811 |
| ZEDLAND | Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun, | 1811 |
| Places : Prisons and Imprisonment |
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| KINGS HEAD INN | or the Chequer Inn in Newgate-street; the Prison of Newgate. | 1737 |
| KINGS HEAD INN, or CHEQUER INN, IN NEWGATE STRE | The prison of Newgate. | 1811 |
| Places : Travel |
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| COBBLE | A kind of boat. | 1811 |
| CROPPIN | the Tail, as, The Croppin of the Rotan, The Tail of the Cart. | 1737 |
| FEATHER-BED LANE | A rough or stony lane. | 1811 |
| FEATHER-BED-LANE | any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt Dunchurch and Daintry. To Feather his nest, to inrich himself by indirect Means, or at the expence of others. | 1737 |
| JUMBLE-GUT-LANE | any very bad or rough Road. | 1737 |
| JUMBLEGUT LANE | A rough road or lane. | 1811 |
| LARK | A boat. | 1811 |
| LEATHERN CONVENIENCE | (by the Quakers) a Coach. | 1737 |
| LUMBER | Live lumber; soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. | 1811 |
| PEETER | a Portmanteau, or Cloak-bag. Bite the Peelter, to whip off the Cloak-bag. | 1737 |
| PETER | A portmanteau or cloke-bag. Biter of peters; one that makes it a trade to steal boxes and trunks from behind stage coaches or out of waggons. To rob Peter to pay Paul; to borrow of one man to pay another: styled also manoeuvring the apostles. | 1811 |
| PETER | a parcel or bundle, whether large or small; but most properly it signifies a trunk or box. | 1819 |
| POGUE | A bag, (probably a corruption of poke.) | 1819 |
| PRADBACK | Horseback. | 1819 |
| ROGER | A portmanteau; also a mans yard. Cant. | 1811 |
| ROGER | a Portmanteau, a Goose; also a Mans Yard. Likewise a Thief-taker. | 1737 |
| RUM PAD | The highway. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-PAD | the Highway. | 1737 |
| SCULL, or SCULLER | A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy. | 1811 |
| SHANKS NAGGY | To ride shanks naggy: to travel on foot. SCOTCH. | 1811 |
| TRIP | a short Voyage or Journey; also an Error of the Tongue, or Pen; a Stumble, a false Step, a Miscarriage. Also a Bastard. | 1737 |
