Red Sail-yard Dockers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Red Sail-yard Dockers

Buyers of stores stolen out of the royal yards and docks.

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

Red Rag * Red Shank

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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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Receiver General
Reckon
To Recruit
Recruiting Service
Red Fustian
Red Lane
Red Ribbin
Red Lattice
Red Letter Day
Red Rag
Red Sail-yard Dockers
Red Shank
Regulars
Religious Horse
Religious Painter
the Relish
Relish
Remedy Critch
Remember Parson Melham
Rendezvous
Rep