subs. (thieves’).—1.  The treadmill. For synonyms, see WHEEL OF LIFE.

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  1851–61.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. II., p. 59. ‘He enpiated,’ as it is called, this offence by three months’ exercise on the COCKCHAFER (treadmill).

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  1864.  Glasgow Citizen, Nov. 19. The Jeremy Diddler who forges his honest name to a fakement, incurring thereby a drag at the COCKCHAFER.

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  2.  (venery).—The female pudendum.

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  3.  (venery).—See COCK-TEASER.

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