![]() (2006) 35: Ahoy there, bring a glim here, quick! Here’s stranger, and by all that’s fatal, I believe Tom’s enemy! 6/4: He carries, his a rule, his faked turns, or skeleton keys, and his shady glim, or a dark lantern. 1/1: The ‘illuminant’ in Iocal railway carriages is reminiscent of a nigger's fire stick what the lamps lack in flame they make up in foul-smelling fumes the greasy glim last week resulted in the wrong man squeezing the right woman.Īrgus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 4/2: Skivvy produced a dark lantern ‘Now.’ he said, ‘I’m to ’ave the glim in one ’and an’ the barker in t’other’.įlynt & Walton Powers That Prey 213: ‘Let’s swap looks at each other under this glim here.’ And the robber drew Pankerd toward the street-lamp. Stevenson Treasure Island 39: Sure enough, they left their glim here. Thomes Bushrangers 402: ‘Bring hither a glim!’ roared the commissioner, for it was hardly light. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: Give me the glim. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 257: Lucky I would not work till the glim was out. I 37: Then old Jack bade Harriet trim the glim.Ĭ. ![]() ![]() ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. Navy at Home I 10: The purser’s glim and six inches of day-light, with rays oblique, struggled for the mastery.ĭickens Oliver Twist (1966) 161: Let’s have a glim or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry II ii: Then catch – here’s the gentleman’s tooth picker, and here’s his glim. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Glim, a candle, or dark lantern, used in housebreaking. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 43: A dark Glim a dark Lantern. Glimstick, a candlestck.īailey Universal Etym. As the cull was glimmed, he gangs to the nubb, i.e., if the fellow has been burnt in the hand, he’ll be hanged now. (1926) 206: Glim, a dark lanthorn used in robbing houses also to burn in the hand. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. a Dark-Lanthorn used in Robbing Houses.Ī. ‘A Newgate ex-prisoner’ A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They carry in one hand a dark Glim, and in the other a Poller, which is a dark Lanthorn and a Pistol.ī.E.
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