sluice your gob | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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Sluice
·vt To emit by, or as by, flood gates. II. Sluice ·noun The stream flowing through a flood gate. I...

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Your
·pron & ·adj The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. ...

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Gob
·noun The <<Mouth>>. II. Gob ·noun ·same·as <<Goaf>>. III. Gob ·noun A little mass or collection; ...

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Gob
cistern; grasshopper ...

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Gob
A pit, a place mentioned in 2 Sam. 21:18, 19; called also Gezer, in 1 Chr. 20:4. ...

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gob
The mouth; also a bit or morsel: whence gobbets. Gift of the gob; wide-mouthed, or one who speaks fl...

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gob
the mouth. N. Gift of the gob, facility of speech. ...

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Gob
(cistern), a place mentioned only in (2 Samuel 21:18,19) as the scene of two encounters between Davi...

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gob string
A bridle. ...

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gob-thrust
see gobbin ...

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gob-string
a bridle ; keep a hand on the gob-string, keep a tight rein. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
gob-doo
A Manx term for a mussel. ...

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gob-line
See gaub-line. ...

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gob-stick
A horn or wooden spoon. ...

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bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. ...

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cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
crook your elbow
To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
blind-your-eyes
n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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keep your luff
An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

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top your boom
See boom. ...

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lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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lay or lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in. ♦ Lay out on your oars! is the order to gi...

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toss in your oars!
The order to desist rowing, and throw the oars in out of the rowlocks. ...

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lend us your pound here!
A phrase demanding assistance in man-weight; alluding to the daily allowance of beef. ...

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