·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, ·etc.
·noun The valved piston of a lifting pump. II. Bucket ·add. ·vt To ride (a horse) hard or merciless...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
To kick the bucket; to die. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- imp. of Shape. Shaped. II. Shop ·vi To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. III. Sh...
A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned. ...
A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food. ...
That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside. ...
In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...
A bucket kept in the tops, to grease the masts, sheets, &c., to make all run smoothly. ...
·add. ·- discussion about a matters pertaining to person's occupation; — often used of such discuss...
A brothel. ...
The Queen's Head in Duke's court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where ...
A church. ...
To keep an ironmonger's shop by the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be hanged in...
A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory. ...
The Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane, where Burton ale is sold in nyps. ...
A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a c...
A dissenting meeting house. ...
Rooms in the King's Bench and Fleet prison where drams are privately sold. ...
A place where slop-clothing is sold. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A place where ready-made clothing for seamen is sold, not at all advantageously to Jack. ...
To die. He kicked the bucket one day: he died one day. To kick the clouds before the hotel door; i.e...
A woman's bosom. ...
A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. Se...
A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READ...
To expire; an inconsiderate phrase for dying. ...
A long shop or shed encroaching on the high street before the wall of St. Peter's church in Cheap wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for. ...
A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being tw...