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  [2]. Please follow that adventure in The Diamond of Drury Lane

  Cat’s Glossary

  Canister–head

  Cast up one’s accounts–to be violently ill

  Charybdis–mythical whirlpool

  Clink–term for gaol

  Crosstrees–top point of mast where lookout can stand

  Dons–Oxford and Cambridge tutors

  Goggle–to stare

  Moll–woman associated with a gang of thieves

  Nipping jig–to be hanged

  Phiz–face

  Scylla–mythical monster, eater of sailors

  Skylarking–to play in the rigging

  Tuilleries–famous Parisian gardens and palace

 


 

  Julia Golding, The Middle Passage

 


 

 
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