† snaffling-layn.
Cant. Obsolete.
The trade of highwayman.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > highway robbery
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highway robbery1611
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snaffling-lay1752
scamp1786
1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iii. 19 I thought by your Look you had been a clever Fellow, and upon the snaffling Lay at least.
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n.1752- to look down one's nose at
- to look down upon
- to look downward
- to look downwards
- to look etc ways for sunday
- to look feel like something the cat has brought in
- to know a hawk from a handsaw
- to know a hawk from a hernshaw
- to know a move or two
- to know a person a thing or two
- to know a person by her company
- to know a person by his company
- to know a person by the company he keeps
- to know a person by the company she keeps
- to know a person in the biblical sense
- to know a thing or two
- to know about
- to know all is to forgive all
- to know all the angles
- to know all the answers
- to know asunder
- to know backwards
- to know best
- to know better
- to know better formerly also better things