Tormenter of sheep skin. A drummer.
Tormenter of catgut. A fiddler.
Tory. An advocate for absolute monarchy
and church
power; also an Irish vagabond, robber,
Or rapparee.
Toss pot. A drunkard.
Toss off. Manual pollution.
Totty-headed. Giddy, hare-brained.
Touch. To touch; to get money from any one;
also
to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken
winded.
Touched in the head; insane, crazy.
To touch up a
woman; to have carnal knowledge of her.
Touch bone
and whistle; any one having broken wind
backwards,
according to the vulgar law, may be pinched
by any of
the company till he has touched bone (i.e.
his teeth) and
whistled.
Touch bun for luck. See bun.
TOVT. A look-out house, or eminence.
Touting. (From TUERI, to look about) Publicans
fore-stalling guests, or meeting them
on the road, and begging
their custom; also thieves or smugglers
looking out to see
that the coast is clear. Touting
ken; the bar of a public
house.
Tow row. A grenadier. The tow
row club; a club or
society of the grenadier officers of the
line.
Towel. An oaken towel, a cudgel. To
rub one down
with an oaken towel; to beat or cudgel
him.
Tower. Clipped money: they have been
round the tower
with it. Cant.
To tower. To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
Tower hill play. A slap on the
face, and a kick on the
breech.
Town. A woman of the town; a prostitute.
To be on
the town: to live by prostitution.
Town bull. A common whoremaster.
To roar like a
town bull; to cry or bellow aloud.
To track. To go. Track up the
dancers; go up stairs.
Cant.
Trading justices. Broken mechanics,
discharged footmen,
and other low fellows, smuggled into the
commission
of the peace, who subsist by fomenting
disputes, granting
warrants, and otherwise retailing justice;
to the honour
of the present times, these nuisances
are by no means, so
common as formerly.
Tradesmen. Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves.
Translators. Sellers of old mended shoes
and boots,
between coblers and shoemakers.
To TRANSMOGRAPHY, or TRANSMIGRIFY. To patch
up
vamp, or alter.
T0 transnear. To come up with any body.
Tranter. See Crocker.
Trap. To understand trap; to know one’s own interest.
Trap sticks. Thin legs, gambs:
from the sticks with
which boys play at trap-ball.


