Acorn (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Acorn

You will ride a horse foaled by an acorn, i.e. the gallows, called also the Wooden and Three-legged Mare. You will be hanged.—See Three-legged Mare.

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

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