† tekeliten.
Obsolete slang.
(In the cant of the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross Street, London) A defaulter, a defaulting debtor.
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1834 New Monthly Mag. 40 328 This, though expressly denominated ‘the defaulter's table’, the only one to which the poor ‘tekelite’ has right of access, is invariably appropriated by the free and unexcepted knights to the washing of cups and platters.
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n.1834- to put or set on or in a flame
- to put or set on or in flame
- to put or set up the back
- to put or throw out of his stride
- to put or throw out off his stride
- to put or throw someone out of his stride
- to put or throw someone out off his stride
- to put order to
- to put our heads together
- to put out
- to put out ,forth for farm
- to put out ,forth in farm
- to put out ,forth to farm
- to put out a person's eyes
- to put out a person's eyes with
- to put out a person's eyes with a bribe
- to put out a person's eyes with a etc
- to put out a person's eyes with a gift
- to put out a person's light
- to put out a person's lights
- to put out feelers
- to put out of
- to put out of a person's head
- to put out of commission
- to put out of commons