| 单词 | toby lay |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoby lay the toby: the highway as the resort of robbers; ‘the road’; also transferred highway robbery (called also the toby concern, toby lay); hence to ply or ride the toby, to practise highway robbery; the high (or main) toby, highway robbery by a mounted thief; also, the highway itself. Cf. low toby n. at low adj. and n.2 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > highway robbery > by mounted highwayman the high (or main) toby1807 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > highway or public road headwayOE high streetOE wayOE port highwayOE port-streetOE port-wayOE highway1257 high gate1324 thoroughfare1540 open road1656 rum pad1665 country road1669 toby lay1807 high toby spice1811 throughgang1856 1807 Sessions' Papers Feb. 133/1 He..asked me if I had any objection of being in a good thing... I asked him when and..he replied it was low toby, meaning a fotpad [sic] robbery. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Toby Lay, the highway. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) The toby applies exclusively to robbing on horseback; the practice of footpad robbery being properly called the spice, though it is common to distinguish the former by the title of high-toby, and the latter of low-toby. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. v. 106 Armed, as if he meant to bing folks on the low toby. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iv. 76 I heered as ow Long Ned started for Hampshire this werry morning on a toby consarn! 1890 J. Sampson in Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. II. 217 Tober or Toby. This old word has found acceptance in every branch of cant... Toba, ground, is given as strolling-players' cant in the ‘Sporting Chronicle’. Borrow in his ‘Lavo-Lil’ calls Tobbar ‘a Rapparee word’.] 1904 Athenæum 4 May 648/1 Travellers..looked askance at its long, empty reaches, haunted maybe by gentlemen of the high toby. < as lemmas |
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