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ADAM TILER,

the Comerade of a Pick pocket, who receives stollen Goods or Money, and scours off with them, Tip the coal to Adam Tiler; i.e. give the Money, Watch, &c. to a running Companion, that the Pick Pocket may have nothing found upon him, when he is apprehended.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ABRAM
ABRAM-COVE
ABRAM-MEN
ACADEMY
ADAM TILER
AFFIDAVIT-MEN
ALSATIA the Higher
ALSATIA the Lower
ALSATIANS
ALTEMAL

Nearby:

Adam Tiler in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).