| 单词 | nubbing cheat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnubbing cheat The action of hanging. Frequently attributive, esp. in nubbing cheat: the gallows. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] hanginga1300 hangmentc1440 gallows1483 gibbet1502 Tyburn checka1529 Tyburn stretch1573 caudle of hempseed1588 hempen caudle1588 swinging1591 rope law1592 rope-leap1611 cording1619 turn1631 nubbing1673 cravatting1683 gibbetation1689 topping1699 Tyburn jig1699 noosing1819 scragging1819 Tyburn tie1828 Newgate hornpipe1829 dance upon nothing1841 drop1887 suspension1909 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 94 They are..sent to the Nubbing cheat. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nubbing, hanging. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nubbing-Cove, the Hangman. Nubbing-Ken, the Sessions-house. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 260 ‘I will shew you a Way to empty the Pockets of a Queer Cull, without any Danger of the Nubbing Cheat.’ ‘Nubbing Cheat,’ cries Partridge, ‘Pray, Sir, what is that?’ ‘Why that, Sir,’ says the Stranger, ‘is a Cant Phrase for the Gallows.’ 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xii. 321 We trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 126/2 Nubbing Cove, the hangman... Nubbing Ken, the session house. 1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 704/2 They pay the last debt at the nubbing-cheat. 1911 S. Weyman Starvecrow Farm xxxiv. 320 ‘The gentry mort’, she said, in thieves' patter, ‘is not worth the nubbing-cheat.’ < as lemmas |
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