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| four-ale | Ale sold at four-pence a quart (1.12 litres) [OED]
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| four-feet¹ | The area between the parallel rails that constitute the running line (as distinct from the gap between the running lines carrying traffic known as the "6 foot")
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| fou¹ | Drunk, [OED] inebriated
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| fox_hunter¹ | Fox hunter: A horse used, or adapted for use, in hunting [OED] A large fast, and strong horse [CPB]
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| freaks¹ | freak: whim [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| Freeholder |
A person who owns land and thereby the right to vote.
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| Free_booters¹ | Originally: a privateer. Later more generally: a piratical adventurer, a pirate; any person who goes about in search of plunder. [OED]
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| fribble(1) | A trifling, frivolous person, one not occupied in serious employment, a trifler. [oed] "Dandy":- One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably. [O.E.D.].
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| frith | Froth, foam [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| fuddle¹ | on the fuddle: out for a lengthened spell of drinking. [OED]
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| fuddling(1) | fuddle; To have a drinking bout; to tipple, booze. [OED]
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| fue do joie |
Feu de joie; a salute fired by rifles in rapid succession along a line of troops.
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| furloo(1) | Furlow: Leave of absence, esp. a permit or licence given to a soldier (or more rarely, an official) to be absent from duty for a stated time [OED]
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| furlow(1) | Furlong – 220 yards, approx 201 meters
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| furze¹ | Ulex europæus, a spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, growing abundantly on waste lands throughout Europe. Also named gorse, whin; common furze, great furze or French furze [OED
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| fustian¹ | A kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Now, a thick, twilled, cotton cloth with a short pile or nap, usually dyed of an olive, leaden, or other dark colour. [OED]
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| gaby¹ | Gaby; A stupid or foolish person; an idiot; a fool. [OED]
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| Gad, Gadding |
To go from one place to another, to wander; esp. to wander about with no serious object, stopping here and there, to rove idly.
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| gaffed(1) | Gaff; to gamble, especially on the toss of a coin. [OED]
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| gag |
A ‘made-up’ story; a piece of deception, an imposture, a lie. [OED]
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