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ARK-RUFFIANS,

Rogues, who in Conjunction with Watermen, &c. rob and sometimes murder on the Water; by picking a Quarrel with the Passenger and then plundering, stripping and throwing him or her over board, &c.

A Species of Badgers.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ANGLERS
ANTICKS
ANTIQUATED
ARCH-ROGUE
ARK
ARK-RUFFIANS
ASSIG.
AUNT
AUTEM
AUTEM-BAWLER
AUTEM-CACKLERS

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Ark Ruffians in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).