ABRAM-COVE,
a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back: a Tatterdemallion.
a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back: a Tatterdemallion.
Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Abram Cove in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).