Steamer. A pipe. A swell steamer; a
long pipe, such
as is used by gentlemen to smoke.
Steel. The house of correction.
Steel bar. A needle. A steel bar
flinger; a taylor, stay-
maker, or any other person using a needle.
Steenkirk. A muslin neckcloth carelessly
put on, from
the manner in which the French officers
wore their cravats
when they returned from the battle of
Steenkirk.
Steeple house. A name given to the church by Dissenters.
Stephen. Money. Stephen’s at home; i.e. has money.
Stepney. A decoction of raisins of the sun
and lemons in
conduit water, sweetened with sugar, and
bottled up.
Stewed quaker. Burnt rum, with a piece
of butter: an
American remedy for a cold.
Sticks. Household furniture.
Sticks. Pops or pistols. Stow your
sticks; hide your
pistols. Cant. See pops.
Stick flams. A pair of gloves.
Stiff-RUMPED. Proud, stately.
STINGRUM. A niggard.
Stingo. Strong beer, or other liquor.
Stirrup cup. A parting cup or glass,
drank on horseback
by the person taking leave.
Stitch. A nick name for a taylor: also
a term for lying
with a woman.
STITCHBACK. Strong ale.
Stiver-cramped. Needy, wanting money.
A stiver is a
Dutch coin, worth somewhat more than a
penny sterling.
Stock. A good stock; i.e. of impudence.
Stock and
block; the whole: he has lost stock
and block.
Stock drawers. Stockings.
Stock jobbers. Persons who gamble in
Exchange Alley,
by pretending to buy and sell the public
funds, but in
reality only betting that they will be
at a certain price, at
a particular time; possessing neither
the stock pretended
to be sold, nor money sufficient to make
good the payments
for which they contract: these gentlemen
are known
under the different appellations of bulls,
bears, and lame
ducks.
Stomach worm. The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry.
Stone. Two stone under weight, or wanting;
an eunuch.
Stone doublet; a prison. Stone dead;
dead as a stone.
Stone jug. Newgate, or any other prison.
Stone tavern. Ditto.
Stoop-NAPPERS, or overseers of the
new pavement.
Persons set in the pillory. Cant.
Stoop. The pillory. The cull was served
for macing and
napp’d the stoop; he was convicted
of swindling, and
put in the pillory.
Stop hole Abbey. The nick name
of the chief rendzvous
of the canting crew of beggars, gypsies,
cheats,
thieves, &c. &c.


