subs. (old cant).—A ditch.

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  1622.  HEAD and KIRKMAN, The English Rogue, ‘Canting Song.’

                    Let Cove bing then,
Thro’ Ruffmans, JAGUE or Laund.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.

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  1754.  The Scoundrel’s Dictionary, s.v.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

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