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slour1819
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slour, to lock, secure, or fasten; to slour up is also to button up; as one's coat, pocket, &c.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 345 No slour'd hoxter my snipes could stay.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 95 Slour'd hoxter, an inside pocket buttoned up.
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v.1819- to throw up one's toenails, boots, etc
- to throw up the game
- to throw up the one's hand
- to throw up the sponge
- to throw, put, one's weight behind
- to thrum buttons
- to thrum caps
- to thrust a person's nose out of joint
- to thrust a thing down a person's throat
- to thrust down a person's throat
- to thrust one's nose in
- to thrust one's nose into
- to thrust one's tongue in one's cheek
- to thrust or run one's head in a bush
- to thrust out
- to thrust, to the wall
- to thug it out
- to thumb one's nose
- to thumb the belt of
- to thump a cushion, the pulpit
- to thump down
- to thump it
- to thunder and lighten
- to thwite a mill-post etc to a pudding-prick
- to thwite a mill-post to a pudding-prick