Part 16 (2/2)

CLUTTER. A stir, noise, or racket: what a confounded clutter here is!

CLY. Money; also a pocket. He has filed the cly; he has picked a pocket. CANT.

CLY THE JERK: To be whipped. CANT.

CLYSTER PIPE. A nick name for an apothecary.

COACH WHEEL. A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel, and a crown piece a hind coach wheel; the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones.

TO COAX. To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones.

Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.

COB. A Spanish dollar.

COB, or COBBING. A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves: it consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted is a dozen. At the first stroke the executioner repeats the word WATCH, on which all persons present are to take off their hats, on pain of like punishment: the last stroke is always given as hard as possible, and is called THE PURSE.

Ash.o.r.e, among soldiers, where this punishment is sometimes adopted, WATCH and THE PURSE are not included in the number, but given over and above, or, in the vulgar phrase, free gratis for nothing. This piece of discipline is also inflicted in Ireland, by the school-boys, on persons coming into the school without taking off their hats; it is there called school b.u.t.ter.

COBBLE. A kind of boat.

TO COBBLE. To mend, or patch; likewise to do a thing in a bungling manner.

COBBLE COLTER. A turkey.

COBBLER. A mender of shoes, an improver of the understandings of his customers; a translator.

COBBLERS PUNCH. Treacle, vinegar, gin, and water.

c.o.c.k, or CHIEF c.o.c.k OF THE WALK. The leading man in any society or body; the best boxer in a village or district.

c.o.c.k ALE. A provocative drink.

c.o.c.k ALLEY or c.o.c.k LANE. The private parts of a woman.

c.o.c.k AND A BULL STORY. A roundabout story, without head or tail, i.e. beginning or ending.

c.o.c.k OF THE COMPANY. A weak man, who from the desire of being the head of the company a.s.sociates with low people, and pays all the reckoning.

c.o.c.k-A-WHOOP. Elevated, in high-spirits, transported with joy.

c.o.c.k BAWD. A male keeper of a bawdy-house.

c.o.c.k HOIST. A cross b.u.t.tock.

c.o.c.kISH. Wanton, forward. A c.o.c.kish wench; a forward coming girl.

c.o.c.kLES. To cry c.o.c.kles; to be hanged: perhaps from the noise made whilst strangling. CANT.--This will rejoice the c.o.c.kles of one's heart; a saying in praise of wine, ale, or spirituous liquors.

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