Rushers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Rushers

Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.

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

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