gussn.
/ɡʌs/ local.
(See quots.)
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Guss (Bristol Coal-field), a short piece of rope by which a boy draws a tram or sled in a pit.
1928 Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 13/2 A gentleman stated that he had seen in a newspaper an illustration of a ‘guss’, taken from a book dated 1842.
1928 Times 4 Oct. 11/4 The guss is a girdle fitted around the waist of boys who pull coal in ‘putts’ or sledges in the Somerset mines.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1883- stand on one's points
- stand on or upon one's behaviour, or one's good behaviour
- stand on or upon the fence
- stand on points
- stand on points of
- stand on points of etc
- stand on points of law
- stand on points of principle
- stand on stepping stones
- stand on terms
- stand on the maid
- stand on the offensive
- stand on the shoulders of
- stand on the shoulders of giants
- stand on thorns
- stand on thorns a thorn
- stand on trial
- stand one's chance
- stand one's corner
- stand one's ground
- stand one's hand
- stand one's trial
- stand or fall
- stand or start widdershins
- stand or stick to one's tackling