slang

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

1) A fetter. Double slanged; double ironed. Now double slanged into the cells for a crop he is knocked down; he is double ironed in the condemned cells, and ordered to be hanged.

2) Cant language.

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