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BOARDING-School,

Bridewell [[prob. rdg; orig. Briedwell]] or New Prison, or any Work-house, or House of Correction, for Vagrants, Beggars and Villains, &c.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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BLUBBERING
To look BLUFF
BLUFFER
BLUNDERBUS
A BLUSTRING Fellow
BOARDING-School
BOARDING Scholars
BOB
It is all BOB
BOBBED
BOB-TAIL

Nearby:

Boarding School in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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