Thieves, beggars, and gypsies, or any others using the canting lingo.
See lingo.
·noun The use of cant; hypocrisy. II. Canting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Cant>>. III. Canting ·adj Speak...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Preaching with a whining, affected tone, perhaps a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andr...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun The Manx shearwater. II. Crew ·Impf of <<Crow>>. III. Crew ·- imp. of <<Crow>>. IV. Crew ·n...
A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three o...
Comprehends every officer and man on board ship, borne as complement on the books. There are in ship...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Is when by a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles ...
See console-bracket. ...
The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...
Consists of a portion of the crew, provided for ship-carpentry and ship-building. In ships of war th...
All officers; a saying of a company where everyone strives to rule. ...
The crew of a banker, or fishing-vessel, which anchors in 60 or 70 fathoms on the Great Bank of Newf...
A bar to any claim on warrantry; as it is an implied condition in the sea-worthiness of a ship, that...
This bars the owner's claim on the sea-worthy warrant. (See incompetency of a merchantman's crew.) ...