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TOWER,

a Cant Word, used to denote bad, or clipped Money: as, They have been round the Tower with it; te he Piece of Money has been clipt.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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TOTTY-Headed
To TOUR
TOUTING-Ken
TOWER Hill Play
TOWN-Bull
TOWER
TRACK
TRANSNEAR
TRANSLATORS
TRANSMOGRIFY
TRANTER

Nearby:

Tower in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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