Touting (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Touting

(From TUERI, to look about) Publicans fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see that the coast is clear. Touting ken; the bar of a public house.

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

Tovt * Tow Row

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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