A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a case or tube of paper, setting it on fire, and directing the smoke up the nostrils of the sleeper. See Howell’S COTGRAVE.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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