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Pye
·noun ·see 2d Pie (b). ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
yarmouth capon
A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
yarmouth coach
A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
yarmouth capon
A red herring; a bloater. ...

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Sea pye
·- ·see 1st Sea pie. ...

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Pye Corner
At the northern end of Giltspur Street, leading to West Smithfield, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elme...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
choaking pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
cold pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sea-pye
See oyster-catcher ...

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yarmouth herring-boat
A clincher-built vessel with lug-sails, similar to the drift or mackerel boats. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Joe-Pye weed
·- A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pye, Henry James
(1745-1813) A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epi...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
apple-pye bed
A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doub...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
pudding-pye-doll
the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Pye Corner, Tower Street
At the east end of Tower Street, and north end of Petty Wales, 23 poles north from Richardson's whar...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Pye in the Royall
A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35). ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.