Drag Lay (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Drag Lay

Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons.

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

Drag * Draggletail

Nearby

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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Down Hills
Down
To Dowse
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Dowser
Doxies
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Drag
Drag Lay
Draggletail
Dragooning It
Drain
Dram
Dram-a-tick
Draper
Draught
Draw Latches
To Draw
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