† North Allertonn.
slang. Obsolete. rare.
In plural. Spurs.
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1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) North Allertons, spurs; that place, like Rippon, being famous for making them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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n.1796- not to say turkey
- not to see a styme
- not to see a wink
- not to see the wood for the trees
- not to see the wood for the trees for trees
- not to see the wood see wood for the trees
- not to see the wood see wood for the trees for trees
- not to seek
- not to set at a glove
- not to sleep a or one wink
- not to smell right
- not to speak a word of
- not to take no for an answer
- not to taste
- not to tell a hawk from a handsaw
- not to tell one's shirt
- not to to wonder what hit one
- not to touch with a pair of tongs
- not to trust a person as far as one can throw her
- not to trust a person as far as one can throw him
- not to trust as far as one can throw her
- not to trust as far as one can throw him
- not to turn a hair
- not to understand a word of
- not to value a rope's end