verb. (old).—1.  To run away: also TO SCOUR AWAY (or OFF).—GROSE.

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  2.  (venery).—To copulate: see GREENS and RIDE.

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  1656.  R. FLETCHER, Martiall, II. 56.

        But they are lyes they tell: she is not wont
To take, but give for SCOURING of her ——.

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  TO SCOUR THE DARBIES (or CRAMP-RINGS), verb. phr. (old cant).—To go (or lie) in chains [HARMAN (1573), HEAD, B. E., COLES, GROSE].

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  1608.  DEKKER, The Beggar’s Curse [GROSART, Works], iii. 203. Then to the quier ken, to SCOURE THE CRAMP-RING.

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  1707.  J. SHIRLEY, The Triumph of Wit, ‘Rum-Works Faithless Maunder.’ Thou the Cramp-rings ne’er did SCOWRE.

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  1815.  SCOTT, Guy Mannering, xxxviii. No wonder that you SCOUR THE CRAMP-RING and trine to the cheat sae often.

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