Basket-making (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Basket-making

The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children’s stockings.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Basket * Bastard

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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Barker
Barkshire
Barking Irons
Barn
Barnaby
Barnacle
Barrel Fever
Barrow Man
Bartholomew Baby
Basket
Basket-making
Bastard
Bastardly Gullion
To Baste
Basting
Bastonading
Bat
Batch
Battner
Batchelor’s Fare
Batchelor’s Son