the breech, or backside.
TO BUM
To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch.
·noun A humming noise. II. Bum ·noun The <<Buttock>>. III. Bum (·vi) To make murmuring or humming ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors. Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our panney; keep a goo...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A sheriff's officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at th...
A schoolmaster. ...
A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating ch...
Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul. ...
A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not...
A boat employed to carry provisions, vegetables, and small merchandise for sale to ships, either in ...
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