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illiards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company. Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds, margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings. _Gigger_, a door. _Globe_, pewter. _Glue-pot_, a parson; from joining men and women together in matrimony. _Glaziers_, eyes. _Glim_, a dark lantern. _Glimfenders_, hand-irons. _Glim_, a candle. _Glimstick_, a candlestick. _Gaoler's coach_, a hurdle. _Goose Riding_: a goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head; which if they effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living. _Grannan gold_, old hoarded coin. _Green bag_, a lawyer. _Grig_, a farthing. _Gropers_, blind men. _Gutter-lane_, the throat. _Hammer_, a great lie, a rapper. _Halberhead_, a silly foolish fellow. _Half nab_, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss. _Half-borde_ sixpence. _Hams_, breeches. _Hamlet_, a high constable. _Hand-me-downs_, second-hand clothes. _Hanktel_, a silly fellow, a mere cod's-head. _Hansan kelder_, a jack in the box, the child in the womb, or a health to it. _Harman_, a constable. _Harmanbeck_, a beadle. _Hawk_, a sharper. _Hazel gold_, to beat any one with a stick. _Hearingcheats_, ears. _Heaver_, the breast. _Hell_, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage or remnants, which are sometimes very large. _Hempen widow_, one whose husband was hanged. _Henfright_, those commanders and officers who are absolutely swayed by their wives. _High tide_, when the pocket is full of money. _Hocus_, disguised in liquor, drunk. _Hodmendods_, snails in their shells. _Hoggrubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow. _Hop-merchant_, a dancing-master. _Hum-box_, a pulpit. _Humpty-dumpty_, ale boiled with brandy. _Hums_, persons at church. _Huskylour_, a job, a guinea. _Iron doublet_, a parson. _Itchl
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