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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money. ...

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Pinch
·noun Pian; pang. II. Pinch ·vt To <<Plait>>. III. Pinch ·vi To take hold; to grip, as a dog does....

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pinch
1) At a pinch; on an exigency. 2) To go into a tradesman's shop under the pretence of purchasing ri...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
on a pinch
On an emergency. At a fight in Albany, New York, on the 12th instant, one man was stabbed desperate...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Gut
·noun A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso. II. Gut ·vt To take out the bowels from; to ...

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gut
A somewhat coarse term for the main part of a strait or channel, as the Gut of Gibraltar, Gut of Can...

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pinch-out
v. to thin out and disappear (ofgold-bearing). This use is given in the `Standard,' butwithout quot...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
Greedy-gut
·noun A <<Glutton>>. ...

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gut scraper
A fiddler. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
rot gut
Small beer; called beer-a-bumble--will burst one's guts before it will make one tumble. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
cat-gut
A term applied to the sea-laces or Fucus filum. (See sea-catgut.) ...

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flench-gut
The blubber of a whale laid out in long slices. ...

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flinch-gut
The whale's blubber; as well as the part of the hold into which it is thrown before being barrelled ...

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jack at a pinch
A poor hackney parson. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to pinch on the parson's side
To defraud the parson of his tithe. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose