subs. (thieves’).—A pocket; a CLY (q.v.); a SKY-ROCKET (q.v.).
FRENCH SYNONYMS: grande; profonde (parfonde or prophète); fouilleuse; gueularde; baguenaude; balade (or ballade); fondrière; four banal; sonde.
1879. J. W. HORSLEY, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ in Macmillan’s Magazine, XL., 502. Having a new suit of clobber on me, and about fifty blow in my BRIGH (pocket).
