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Bum
·noun A humming noise. II. Bum ·noun The <<Buttock>>. III. Bum (·vi) To make murmuring or humming ...

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bum
the breech, or backside. TO BUM To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the t...

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Trap
·noun The game of trapball. II. Trap ·noun A wagon, or other vehicle. III. Trap ·noun A kind of mo...

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trap
To understand trap; to know one's own interest. ...

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bum bailiff
A sheriff's officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at th...

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bum brusher
A schoolmaster. ...

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bum boat
A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating ch...

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bum fodder
Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul. ...

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johnny bum
A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not...

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bum-boat
A boat employed to carry provisions, vegetables, and small merchandise for sale to ships, either in ...

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Trap shooting
·add. ·- Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a t...

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beau trap
A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bully trap
A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in. ...

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louse trap
A small toothed comb. ...

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man trap
A woman's commodity. ...

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potatoe trap
The mouth. Shut your potatoe trap and give your tongue a holiday; i.e. be silent. IRISH WIT. ...

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trap sticks
Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball. ...

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clap-trap
An artifice for attracting applause. Used chiefly in theatrical or political language. The managers...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
grub-trap
A vulgarism for the mouth. ...

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trap-creel
A basket for catching lobsters. ...

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wentle-trap
The Scalaria pretiosa, a very elegant univalve shell, much valued by collectors. ...

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Bear-trap dam
·add. ·- A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at t...

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up to trap
Knowing; shrewd. English and American. Phrenology is a little bit dangerous. It is only fit for an ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.