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Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds, margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the b.u.t.tery, 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 Derbys.h.i.+re within the memory of persons now living.
_Grannan gold_, old h.o.a.rded 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.
_h.e.l.l_, 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 sh.e.l.ls.
_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.
_Itchland_, Ireland.
_Jackrum_, a licence.
_Jack Adams_, a fool.
_Jack-a-dandy_, a little insignificant fellow.
_Jack-in-a-box_, a sharper or cheat.
_Jack-at-a-pinch_, a poor hackney parson.
