Pickpockets, chiefly young Jews, who ply about the Bank to steal the pocket-books of persons who have just received their dividends there.
·noun One who reads. II. Reader ·noun A proof reader. III. Reader ·noun One who reads much; one wh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A pocket-book. CANT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See Bardi, Lombards, Friscobaldi, Lucca, Society of. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
In Thames Street (W. Stow, 1722). Not named in the maps. ...
·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. ...
·add. ·- A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church. ...
See Steelyard. ...