1736 Canting Dictionary / D / DEAD-MEN [thing]
empty Pots or Bottles ona Tavern Table.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Dead Men in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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