J’m’en étais enganté.
Vidocq.
Engerber (thieves’), to apprehend, “to smug.” From gerbe, a sheaf of corn. See [Piper].
Engluer (thieves’), la chevêche, to arrest a gang of rogues.
Engourdi, m. (thieves’), corpse, or “cold meat.”
Engrailler (thieves’), to catch, to seize; —— l’ornie, to catch a fowl, generally by means of a baited hook (old cant).
Je sais bien aquiger les luques, engrailler l’ornie.—Le Jargon de l’Argot. (I know how to prepare pictures, to catch a fowl.)
Engrainer (popular), to arrive, “to crop up.”
Engraisser (thieves’), un poupart, to make preparations for a theft or murder. Literally to fatten a child.