Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Sign-manual
subs. phr. (old).—The mark of a blow.
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1822. SCOTT, The Fortunes of Nigel, xxiii. I bear some marks of the parson about me…. The man of God bears my SIGN-MANUAL too, but the Duke made us friends again.
