Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Ferm
subs. (old cant).—A hole; with Spencer = a prison.
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1632. DEKKER, English Villanies. He [an angler for duds] carries a short staff in his hand which is called a filch, having in the nab or head of it a FERME (that is to say a hole).
