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RUFF,

an old-fashioned double Band; from whence the Pillory is called, The Wooden Ruff.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ROVERS
ROUGH
ROYSTERS
To RUB
He RUBS us to the Whit
RUFF
RUFFIN
RUFFLERS
RUFFMANS
RUFF-Peck
RUG

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Ruff in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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