Jack. - Horntip

Land-swab. 153 Lank.
c.1824. The American, vim 68. There
will be evasion of our laws by native
and foreign LAND-SHARKS.
4. (common). --A customhouse
officer.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Mannering -, xxxiv.
Lieutenant Brown gave him to his
cousin that's in the Middleburgh house
of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told
him some goose's gazette about his being
taken in a skirmish with the LAND-
SHARKS.'
LAND- SW A B, subs. (common).—A
LANDLUBBER (q.v.); a GRASS-
COMBER (q.v.).
LAND-YARD, subs. (American).—A
cemetery.
LANE, subs. (old).— !. The throat.
For synonyms see GUTTER AL-
LEY. Also RED LANE and RED
LION LANE.
1534. UDALL, Roister Doister, i. 3.
Good ale for the nones, Whiche will
slide downe the LANE without any bones.
1818. COLMAN, Poetical Vagaries,
75. 0 butter'd egg, best eaten with a
spoon, I bid your yelk glide down my
throat's RED LANE.
1865. London Soc., Jan., p. 13. I
eat the macaroon. You see it's all gone
clOWn RED LION LANE.
2. (nautical).—The course laid
out for ocean steamers between
England and America. [There are
two lanes, or lane-routes both
narrowly defined : the northern
for westward bound, and the
southern eastering bottoms].
THE LANE, subs. phr. (various).
—i. (theatrical) Drury Lane Theatre;
2. (colonial brokers') Mincing
Lane ; 3. (corn factors') Mark
Lane ; 4. (legal) Chancery Lane ;
5. (thieves') Petticoat Lane, and
6. (ibid.) the old Horsemonger
Lane Jail, now demolished. Cf.
CADE, HOUSE, GARDEN etc.
1856. H. MAYHEW, Gt. World of
London, p. 82 note. Horsemonger Lane
jail—THE LANE.
1880. G. R. Sims, Ballads of Babylon
(Forgotten). Whenever THE LANE
tried Shakespeare, I was one of the
leading men.
1893. EMERSON, Signor Li1.15o,
I started off for THE LANE, the professionals'
emporium.
HARRIETT LANE, subs. phr.
(military).—Tinned or preserved
meat.
LANGOLEE, subs. (venery).—The penis.
For synonyms see CREAM-
STICK and PRICK.
LANGRET, subs. (old).—In pl. dice
loaded so as to show 4 or 3 more
often than any other number. [The
opposite is BARDQUATER-TRAY].
1591. GREENE, Notable Discovery
[GRosART (1881-6), X. 12]. The cheter,
with a LANGRET, cut contrary to the vantage.
Ibid. 37. Cheats . . . flats, forgers,
LANGRETS, gourds.
1594. NASHE, Unfort. Iravelier
[GRosART (1884), V. 27]. LANGRETS, fullams,
and all the whole fellowship of them
will not afoorde a man his dinner.
1600. ROWLANDS, Letting of Humours
Blood, p. so. His LANGRETs with
his Hie men and his low.
1612. Art of Yuggling, C, 4. A
LANGRET. . . . is a well-favoured die and
seemeth good and square, yet it is forged
longer upon the cater and trea than
any other way, and therefore it is called
a LANGRET.'
LAN K, adj. (old: now recognised).—
See quot.
1590. SPENSER, Faery Queen, III,
vi. 18. Her LANCK loynes ungirt.
1690. B. E., Diet. Cant. Crew,
S.V. LANK, Gaunt, Thin, Hollow, Lean,
Meager, Slender, Weak. Lank Ears of
Corn, very thin Ears.
1725. New Cant. Diet., s.v.
AFTER A LANK COMES A
BANK, phr. (old).—Said of breeding
women.