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BARNACLES,

the Irons worn in Goal by Felons. A Pair of Spectacles is also called Barnacles; as I saw the Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled, making out the Cove's Dispatches, i.e. I saw the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on making out his Mittimus.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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BANDITTI
BANDOG
BANTLING
BARKER
BARNACLE
BARNACLES
BAR-WIG
To BASTE
BASTONADING
BATTEN
BATTENER

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

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