subs. (thieves’).—A pocket-handkerchief: STOOK-HAULER = a handkerchief thief.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, xiv. All I get is my kip and a clean mill tog, a pair of pollies and a STOOCK, and what few meddays I can make out of the lodgers and nudies, and what I earn for keeping the grubs—a soldi from each as I told you.
