To divide the house with one’s wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one’s self, i.e. to turn her into the street.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Diver * DoNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
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