TO COUCH A HOGSHEAD, verb. phr. (old cant).—See quot. For synonyms, see BALMY.

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  1567.  HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1814), p. 66. TO COUCH A HOGSHEAD: to ly downe and slepe. Ibid. I COUCHED A HOGSHEAD in a skypper this darkemans.

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