King’s Wood Lion (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

King’s Wood Lion

An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that place.

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

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