Glossary list
Glossaries
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| Gurney¹ | Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875), surgeon and engineer most noted for his development of steam-powered road carriages.
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| gurney¹ | A general name for a steam powered road vehicle. From Goldsworthy Gurney the engineer who designed several celebrated steam coaches. [CPB] |
| Gusto¹ | Flavour or savour (of food, etc.). [OED]
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| gut(1) | A backwater or small tributary of a river.
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| guy¹ | A person of grotesque appearance, esp. with reference to dress; a 'fright'. Someone to be made an object of ridicule or derisive wit
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| ha'penny | A coin worth half of one old penny
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| hackneys¹ | hackney
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| hack¹ | A horse used for hire Also: an inferior or worn out horse, a nag [OED]
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| hads¹ | Goes well, reliably, unchanged [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| hagwilletts |
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| Half seas over(1) | Drunk
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| Half-a-crown² | Two shillings and six pence or a coin to that value.
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| hall¹ | Servants' Hall: A common room for domestic workers in a great house [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servants%27_hall]
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| hammer lane¹ | John 'Hammer' Lane - (1815-1882) Prize fighter born near Wolverhampton. Listed as an innkeeper, in Moor Street, Birmingham in 1841 [https://www.blackcountrymuse.com/apps/forums/topics/show/6808196-bare-knuckle-boxing-]
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| hanging in chains | Those who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts were executed at Execution Dock. In the cases of the most notorious offenders, the Admiralty would order that their bodies were to be tarred and hung in chains at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point.
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| hank¹ | Length of rope
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| hap¹ | The OED gives "To wrap a garment (also bedding, etc.) round (a person), esp. for warmth; (also) to tuck up (in bed). Also in figurative contexts. In modern use freq. with up." So probably a garment taht could be wrapped around a person.
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| Harrowº | A private school for boys - charging high fees and patronised by the upper classes [CPB]
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| hauve(1) | meaning not known
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| hay-cock¹ |
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