† gallows-clappern.
Obsolete.
= gallows-bird n.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging
wickhals?a1400
crack-rope?a1500
widdieneck?a1500
widdiefu?a1513
thevis neka1525
stretch-hemp1532
man of death1535
slip-string1546
waghalter1546
ropeful1567
gallows-clapper1570
hang-rope1570
rope-ripe1570
crack-halter1573
hempstring1573
wag-string1578
stretch-halter1583
gallows1598
halter-sack1598
wag-with1611
crack-hempa1616
roper1615
halter-sick1617
gallows-climber1668
hang-string1675
hempy1718
gallows-face1725
gallows-bird1785
hang-gallows1785
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gii/1 A Gallowclapper, furcifer.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie li. 305 It is not only the gallowes-clappers that say so I meane those whose faultes and crymes are manifest.
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. E4 Come, come, ye Gallows-clappers.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. vii Their Worships as he call'd them were about a score of fusty Crackropes and Gallowclappers.
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n.1570- line defect
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- line engraving
- line female
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- line for line
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- line gauge
- line graph
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