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Entries releated to CRACK

 

CRACK		A whore.
CRACKER		Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.
CRACKING TOOLS		Implements of house-breaking, such as a crow, a center bit, false keys, etc.
CRACKISH		Whorish.
CRACKMANS		Hedges. The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge, but we brought him back by a great blow on the head, which laid him speechless.
CRACKSMAN		A house-breaker. The kiddy is a clever cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker.
CRIB		A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.
FARTING CRACKERS		Breeches.
GIMCRACK, or JIMCRACK		A spruce wench; a gimcrack also means a person who has a turn for mechanical contrivances.
GRAB		To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burglary.
KEN MILLER, or KEN CRACKER		A housebreaker.
NUTCRACKERS		The pillory: as, The cull peeped through the nutcrackers.
PITCHER		The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.
REGULARS		Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman's house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between them.