To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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