1736 Canting Dictionary / T / TEMPLE Pickling [thing]
the Pumping of Bailiffs, Bums, Setters, Pick-Pockets, &c.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Temple Pickling in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).