STOTER.  A great blow.  Tip him a stoter in the haltering
  place; give him a blow under the left ear.

Stoup.  A vessel to hold liquor:  a vessel containing a size
  or half a pint, is so called at Cambridge.

Stow.  Stow you; be silent, or hold your peace.  Stow
  your whidds and plant’em, for the cove of the ken can
  cant’em; you have said enough, the man of the house
  understands you.

Strait-laced. Precise, over nice, puritanical.

Strait waistcoat.  A tight waistcoat, with long sleeves
  coming over the hand, having strings for binding them
  behind the back of the wearer:  these waistcoats are used in
  madhouses for the management of lunatics when outrageous.

STRAMMEL.  See Stammel.

Stranger.  A guinea.

Strangle goose.  A poulterer.

To strap.  To work.  The kiddy would not strap, so he
  went on the scamp:  the lad would not work, and therefore
  robbed on the highway.

Strapper.  A large man or woman.

Strapping.  Lying with a woman.  Cant.

Straw.  A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. 
  His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is
  almost asleep:  one eye draws straw, and t’other serves the
  thatcher.

Stretch.  A yard.  The cove was lagged for prigging a
  peter with several stretch of dobbin from a drag; the
  fellow was transported for stealing a trunk, containing
  several yards of ribband, from a waggon.

Stretching.  Hanging.  He’ll stretch for it; he will be
  hanged for it.  Also telling a great lie:  he stretched stoutly.

Strike.  Twenty shillings.  Cant.

Strip me naked. Gin.

Stroke.  To take a stroke:  to take a bout with a woman.

Strollers.  Itinerants of different kinds.  Strolling morts;
  beggars or pedlars pretending to be widows.

STROMMEL.  Straw.  Cant.

Strong man.  To play the part of the strong man, i.e.
  to push the cart and horses too; to be whipt at the cart’s
  tail.

Strum.  A perriwig.  Rum strum:  a fine large wig. 
  (Cambridge) To do a piece.  Foeminam subagitare.  Cant.

To strum.  To have carnal knowledge of a woman; also to
  play badly on the harpsichord; or any other stringed
  instrument.  A strummer of wire, a player on any instrument
  strung with wire.

Strumpet.  A harlot.

Stub-faced. Pitted with the smallpox:  the devil ran
  over his face with horse stabs (horse nails) in his shoes.

Stubble it.  Hold your tongue.  Cant.

STULING ken.  See stalling ken.  Cant.