subs. (venery).—The penis: see PRICK. Also (Somerset) = copulation.
d. 1638. CAREW, A Rapture. My RUDDER with thy bold hand … thou shalt steer and guide … into Love’s channel.
1760. ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 95.
| Sure Venus never can be tir’d | |
| While pow’rful Mars directs the RUDDER. |
