GOTCH-GUTTED. Pot bellied: a gotch in Norfolk signifying
a pitcher, or large round jug.
TO GOUGE. To squeeze out a man's eye with the thumb:
a cruel practice used by the Bostonians in America.
To GRABBLE. To seize. To grabble the bit; to seize any
one's money. CANT.
GRAFTED. Cuckolded, i.e. having horns grafted on his
head.
To GRAB. To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey
for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burglary.
GRANNAM. Corn.
GRANNUM'S GOLD. Hoarded money: supposed to have belonged to the grandmother of the possessor.
GRANNY. An abbreviation of grandmother; also the name of an idiot, famous for licking, her eye, who died Nov. 14, 1719. Go teach your granny to suck eggs; said to such as would instruct any one in a matter he knows better than themselves.
GRAPPLE THE RAILS. A cant name used in Ireland for whiskey.
GRAPPLING IRONS. Handcuffs.