or go-one, subs. phr. (common).—1. Properly, a man with a wooden leg; by implication, a HOPPING-GILES or LIMPING JESUS (q.v.). Fr., un (or une) banban. Cf., verbal sense.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1822. SCOTT, The Fortunes of Nigel, ch. v. That was his father … You old dotard. DOT-AND-CARRY-ONE that you are.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (A Lay of St. Nicholas). How he rose with the sun, limping ‘DOT AND GO ONE.’
1841. LEMAN REDE, Sixteen-String Jack, Act i., Sc. 4. Kit. Of all the rummy chaps I ever did see, that DOT-AND-CARRY-ONE-OF-old poetry is the queerest; he’s as green as a babby, and as deep as a wooden spoon.
2. (old).—A writing-master or teacher of arithmetic. [GROSE, 1785.]
Verb (old).—To ‘hirple’; especially applied to a person with one leg shorter than the other, or, ‘with an uneven keel.’
