To make desperate love to a man; to angle obviously to catch a certain individual for a husband.
“‘Coxcomb?ʹ said Lance; ‘why, ‘twas but last night the whole family saw her … fling herself at my head.ʹ”—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. vii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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