单词 | stalling-ken |
释义 | † stalling-kenn. Thieves' cant. Obsolete. (See quots.)In later dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > [noun] > place where stalling-ken1567 lock1699 fence-shop1789 soup-shop1799 fence1847 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biii Which [pigs or poultry] they brynge to their stawlinge kens, which is their typpling houses. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii A staulinge ken, a house that wil receiue stolen ware. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. They and their Trulls may meet at their stawling kenns with such clapperdogeons as your selfe. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 48 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Till..he be able to beate it on the hoofe to the bene bouse, or the stauling Ken. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Stalling-ken, a brokers, or any house that receives stolen goods. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stalling-ken. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stuling-ken. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmasstalling-ken A house; esp. a house where thieves, beggars, or disreputable characters meet or lodge. Frequently with qualifying words, as bousing-ken, dancing-ken, smuggling-ken, stalling-ken, touting-ken. to burn the ken (see quot. 1725). ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > dwelling of specific types of people > of thieves or criminals denc1275 case?1536 ken1567 nest1617 lumber1753 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiv A ken, a house. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiii Tower ye [= look you] yander is the kene. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3/1 Surprising a Boores ken, for granting cheates. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3 Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken. 1725 New Canting Dict. Burnt the Ken, when Strollers leave the Ale~house, without paying their Quarters. 1800 Sporting Mag. 16 26 Called at a ken in the way home. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 Up she goes to any likely ken,..and commences begging. 1860 W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon v. §15 These..skulk about the kens of Newgate Street. < n.1567 as lemmas |
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