A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, &c. and now corruptly called a country dance.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Content-1 * ConundrumsNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes