Nab

.—To nab a cull is a modern vulgar, though technical term, in the new-invented system of crimping, signifying, to kidnam for the military service any young man who is imprudent enough after dark to frequent the infernal stews and brothel-houses, with which the well-policed metropolis abounds.

Notes

See also Cull in Nathan Bailey’s Canting Dictionary, and also To Nab and Cull in the 1811 Vulgar tongue dictionary.

Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.

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