I’ll cut your painter for you; I’ll send you off; the painter being the ropfe that holds the boat fast to the ship. SEA TERM.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
paddy * pair of wingsNathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes