An instrument for lifting up the grate or top of a show-glass, in order to rob it. CANT.
·noun A familiar name of the European wren. II. Jenny ·noun A familiar or pet form of the proper na...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun ·see <<Mule>>, 4. ...
a wren. S. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
, howlet an owl. Yorks. ...