1736 Canting Dictionary / T / TOWER Hill Play [punishment]
a Slap on the Face and a Kick on the Breech.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Tower Hill Play in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).