10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAGSMAN»
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Argot and slang: a new French and English dictionary of the ...
Termed “to snork ” at Shrewsbury School. Rouletier, m. (thieves'), a thief who robs
cabs or ramage; by climbing up behind and cutting the straps that secure the
luggage on the roof, “ dragsman.” Des classes entières de voleurs étaient aux ...
Albert Marie Victor Barrère,
1906
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the ...
... the requisite speed and endurance, and fears were entertained that he would
have to endure the mortification of defeat. Next came Lord Kilburne's Jerry colt (6.
Galloway), then Dragsman (Macdonald), and Bolus (Hessletine) ; next Charles ...
Euclid ascended very considerably, as might reasonably be. expected, and
Ilderim also ; the most remarkable feature, however, in the business of the
afternoon was the sudden elevation of Dragsman, whose friends raised him from
the ...
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The Oriental Sporting Magazine
Mr. Editor, A word, if you please, to your correspondent Dragsman. He has gone
away at a light slapping pace (like Emilius with Bundoola on his quarter), but is
the pace so hollow a thing as he fancies ? Detonators are, I allow, very pretty
tools ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
EGAN, Book o/ Sports, p. a. The Swell DRAGSMAN or in plain English a well-
dressed stage coachman. 18.51. H. MAYHEW, Lon. Lot. and Lon. Poor, IV~V 332
. This locality is much infested with pickpockets and also with DRAGSMEN.
John Stephen Farmer, Henley,
1891
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle
Dragsman. 3** Draw. d. 1*525. Fletcher, How our St. George's will be stride the
dragons ! The red and ramping dragons E TO WATER THE DRAGON, verb, phr. (
common). — To urinate ; ' pump ship ; ' ' rack off.' Dragsman. — A coachman ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley,
1891
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Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures
Heenan promptly characterized him as " The Little Dragsman "—a play on the
word draughtsman, and something very nearly approaching friendship sprang up
between the two. This was most fortunate for Nast, for though the News had
made ...
Albert Bigelow Paine,
1904
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
Charles Knight. Dragsman and Foal. [Screening Coals.] •* Tho.OIHct of the
Society for tho Diffusion. Preparing to blast is called by the miners the thill, and
the top the roof. Here and there along the walls of this passage a safety- lamp is ...
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The New Sporting Magazine
But then what an improvement is even this on the old dragsman, smelling of gin
and beer, and now and then treating the outsides to a wind of a pocket
handkerchief taken out of his hat, where it had been imbedded for some days. As
may be ...
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Heroes and heroines of the Grand National
After jumping Becher's Brook, where Croxby breaks down, Dragsman shows the
way to Vanguard, Peter Simple, Lottery, and The Returned, the others apparently
out of it. In the ploughed field next the road The Returned takes a drain which ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAGSMAN»
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David Crystal poetry competition
the dragsman look, edit his music. and trembling below, find the boy. reaching for his absent mum's skirt. His speech-craft is grunts, a bodgery. «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 11»
From Riddle to Twittersphere: David Crystal tells the story of English …
64 Dragsman Thieves' cant (19th c). 65 Lunch U or non-U (19th c). 66 Dude A cool usage (19th c). 67 Brunch A portmanteau word (19th c). «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 11»