Raidir (popular), or —— l’ergot, to die, “to snuff it.” See [Pipe]. To express that one is dead English and American thieves say that he has been “put to bed with a shovel.”
Played out they lay, it will be said
A hundred stretches (years) hence;
With shovels they were put to bed
A hundred stretches hence!
Thieves’ Song.
Raie. See [Gueule].
Raille, f. and m. (thieves’), la ——, the police, the “reelers.” Etre ——, to be in the employ of the police, a “nose.”
C’est vrai, mais vous ne m’avez pas dit que vous étiez raille (mouchard).—Vidocq.
Un ——, or railleux, police officer, or “copper;” a detective, or police spy.