1736 Canting Dictionary / T / THOROUGH Stitch [thing]
over Shoes, over Boots.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Thorough Stitch in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).