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Town
·adv & ·prep The court end of London;-- commonly with the. II. Town ·adv & ·prep A farm or farmstea...

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town
A woman of the town; a prostitute. To be on the town: to live by prostitution. ...

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Ditch
·vt To surround with a ditch. II. Ditch ·vi To dig a ditch or ditches. III. Ditch ·noun Any long, ...

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ditch
In fortification the excavation in front of the parapet of any work, ranging in width from a few fee...

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Town-crier
·noun A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town. ...

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town bull
A common whoremaster. To roar like a town bull; to cry or bellow aloud. ...

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town-place
a farm-yard. Cornw. ...

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town-major
An officer in a garrison specially supervising the detail of the guards, and of other local current ...

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Town Clerk
the title ascribed in our version to the magistrate at Ephesus who appeased the mob in the theatre a...

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Bridewell Ditch
A name given to the mouth of the Fleet and mentioned as the western boundary of the Blackfriars 1560...

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City Ditch
See Houndsditch. ...

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Deep Ditch
The western boundary of Bethlehem Hospital as set out in Simon Fitz Mary's Charter of Foundation-to ...

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Ditch Side
The Town Ditch, in Farringdon Ward Within ; the east side was included in Blackfriars precinct (Stry...

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Fleet Ditch
See The Fleet. So called as early as the 13th century. Described by Hatton (1708) as in his time a ...

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Moore Ditch
Moore Ditch to be cleansed, 1603 (L. and P. Ed. VI. , etc., VI. 290-1). In 1635 a sewer was constru...

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Spital Ditch
A lane called "le Spiteldiche," 1316 (Ct. H.W. I. 269). Rent in lane given for maintenance of St Se...

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Tower Ditch
Made by the Bishop of Ely while King Richard was in Palestine (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 9). Land pu...

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Jezreel, Ditch of
(1 Kings 21:23; comp. 13), the fortification surrounding the city, outside of which Naboth was execu...

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Fleet Ditch Side
By Fleet Ditch (P.C. 1732). ...

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man of the town
A rake, a debauchee. ...

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woman of the town
A prostitute. ...

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Bear Alley, Fleet Ditch
West from Fleet Ditch and south to Bride Lane, in Bridewell precinct, in Farringdon Ward Without (O....

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