/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Slick (Sam)
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A Yankee clock-maker and pedlar, wonderfully ʹcute, a keen observer, and with plenty of “soft sawder.” Judge Haliburton wrote the two series called Sam Slick, or the Clockmaker.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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