subs. (old).—1.  A thief. See LIFT, subs., sense 1.

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  2.  In pl. (old).—A crutch.

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