1736 Canting Dictionary / K / KNIGHT of the Blade [rogue]
a Hector or Bully.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Knight of the Blade in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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