Ill cut your PAINTER for ye,
I'll prevent your doing me any Mischief: the Tar Cant when they quarrel onw with another.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).