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To SILENT a Man,

to knock him down, so as to stun him: To lay him down for dead. See the Cull is Silent, is also us'd by desperate Villains, for cutting the Throat, or shooting the unhappy Person who falls in their way.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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SHOULDER-Sham
SHRED
SHUFFLER
SHURK
SICE
To SILENT a Man
SILK Snatchers
SIMKIN
SIMON
SINGLE-Ten
SIR JOHN

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

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