queer checkers

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• Checkers

  ·v A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (cou...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• checkers

  The common name for the game which is called draughts in England. Mr. Todd, in his edition of Johnso...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• checkers

  A game much used by seamen, especially in the tops, where usually a checker-board will be found carv...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Queer

  ·noun Counterfeit money. II. Queer ·add. ·adj To <<Puzzle>>. III. Queer ·adj Mysterious; suspiciou...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• queer

  or quire Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fel...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer wedges

  Large buckles. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bail

  Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer birds

  Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bitch

  An odd, out-of-the-way fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bluffer

  The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper....

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bung

  An empty purse. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cove

  A rogue. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cuffin

  A justice of the peace; also a churl. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer degen

  An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer ken

  A prison. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer kicks

  A bad pair of breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer mort

  A diseased strumpet. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer nab

  A felt hat, or other bad hat. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer plungers

  Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices,...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer prancer

  A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer rooster

  An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer street

  Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wr...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer fish

  An odd or eccentric person is often called a queer fish, an odd stick. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• queer bit-makers

  Coiners. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cole fencer

  A putter off, or utterer, of bad money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cole maker

  A maker of bad money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer as dick's hatband

  Out of order, without knowing one's disease. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose