Regency Words: Robbed

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A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed:

shake a cloth in the wind to be hanged in chains SHAKE To draw any thing from the pocket He shook the swell of his fogle he robbed the gentleman of his silk handkerchief To steal or rob as I shook a chest of slop I stole a chest of tea I ve been shook of my skin I have been robbed of my purse A thief whose pall has been into any place for the purpose of robbery will say on his coming out Well is it all right have you shook meaning did you succeed in getting any thing When two persons rob in company it is generally the province or part of one to shake that is to obtain the swagg and the other to carry that is to bear it to a place of safety

DOMINO BOX To open the To open DONE or DONE OVER Robbed also convicted or hanged Cant As he was done for a crack he was convicted of house breaking hanging

Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823)

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