Holiday (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Holiday

A holiday bowler; a bad bowler. Blind man’s holiday; darkness, night. A holiday is any part of a ship’s bottom, left uncovered in paying it. SEA TERM. It is all holiday; See All Holiday.

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

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