Part 10 (2/2)
_Cheat-the-devil_, a dicky
_Chife_, a knife, file, or saw
_Chosen Pells_, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the streets and squares of London; to prevent being followed by the sound of their horses' shoes on the stones, they shoe the_, a parish clerk
_Clank napper_, a silver tankard
_Clickman Toad_, a watch; also, an appellation for a west-country-a westcountryman, who had never seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which, by the motion of the hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature of the toad kind; and, fro, he naues
_Cloy_, thief, robber, &c
_Cloyes_, thieves, robbers, &c
_Cly_, money; also, a pocket He has filed a cly; he has picked a pocket
_Cold burning_, a punishment inflicted by private soldiers, on their co offences of theirainst the wall, with the arh above his head as possible; the executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting hiently down his body, till it runs out at the bottom of his trowsers-this is repeated to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both
_Cloak_, a silver tankard
_Coach wheel_, or _a fore coach wheel_, half-a-crown; _a hind coach wheel_, a crown
_Cobblecotter_, a turnkey
_Collar day_, execution day
_Colquarron_, a man's neck
_Comefa_, a shi+rt, or shi+ft
_Commission_, a shi+rt
_Comfortable impudence_, a wife
_Cooler_, a woay fluttering coxcomb
_Cow's baby_, a calf
_Cow-handed_, aard, not dextrous
_Crab shells_, shoes
_Crae:-he has just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed upon him