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Cart (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Cart

To put the cart before the horse; to mention the last part of a story first. To be flogged at the cart’s a-se or tail; persons guilty of petty larceny are frequently sentenced to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the common executioner, for a certain distance: the degree of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the executioner, who, it is said, has cats of nine tails of all prices.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Carry Witchet * Carting

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

Caravan
Carbuncle Face
Cardinal
To Carouse
Carriers
Carriers-1
Carrion Hunter
Carrots
Carrotty-pated
Carry Witchet
Cart
Carting
Carvel’s Ring
To Cascade
Case
Case Vrow
Cash
Caster
Castor
Casting up one’s Accounts
Cat