Keel Bullies (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Keel Bullies

Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels.

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

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

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