Knight of the whip.  A coachman.

Knight of the trencher.  A great eater.

Knight and barrow pig, more hog than gentleman.  A
  saying of any low pretender to precedency.

Knob.  The head.  See nob.

Knock.  To knock a woman; to have carnal knowledge of
  her.  To knock off; to conclude:  phrase borrowed from
  the blacksmith.  To knock under; to submit.

Knock me down.  Strong ale or beer, stingo.

Knot.  A crew, gang, or fraternity.  He has tied a knot
  with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth:  i.e.
  he is married.

Knowing ones.  Sportsmen on the turf, who from
  experience and an acquaintance with the jockies, are supposed
  to be in the secret, that is, to know the true merits or
  powers of each horse; notwithstanding which it often happens
  that the knowing ones are taken in.

Knowledge box.  The head.

Knuckles.  Pickpockets who attend the avenues to public
  places to steal pocket-books, watches, &c. a superior kind
  of pickpockets.  To knuckle to, to submit.

To knuckle one’s wipe.  To steal his handkerchief.

Knuckle-dabs, or knuckle-CONFOUNDERS.  Ruffles.

KONOBLIN rig.  Stealing large pieces of coal from coalsheds.

Laced mutton.  A prostitute.

Lacing.  Beating.  I’ll lace your jacket handsomely.

Ladder.  To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged.

Lady.  A crooked or hump-backed woman.

Lady of easy virtue.  A woman of the town, an impure,
  a prostitute.

Ladybirds.  Light or lewd women.

Lady DACRE’S wine.  Gin.

Lag.  A man transported.  The cove was lagged for a drag. 
  The man was transported for stealing something out of a
  waggon.

Lag fever.  A term of ridicule applied to men who being
  under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid
  being sent from gaol to the hulks.

To lag.  To drop behind, to keep back.  Lag last; the
  last of a company.

Lage.  Water.  Cant.

Lage of duds.  A buck of linen.

Laid on the shelf, or laid up in lavender.  Pawned.

To lamb, or lambaste. To beat.  Lamb pye; a beating: 
  from lambo.

Lamb’s wool.  Apples roasted and put into strong ale.

Lambskin men.  The judges:  from their robes lined and
  bordered with ermine.