subs. (old).—A link-boy; a GLIM-JACK. [His services were not required on moon-light nights.]
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
c. 1750. [quoted in J. ASHTON’S Eighteenth Century Waifs, 1887, p. 234]. Otherwise call’d Glym Jack from his having been a MOON CURSER, or Link Boy.
1786. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
