LADDER. To go up the ladder to rest; to be hanged.
LADY. A crooked or hump-backed woman.
LADY OF EASY VIRTUE. A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute.
LADYBIRDS. Light or lewd women.
LADY DACRE'S WINE. Gin.
LAG. A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag.
The man was transported for stealing something out of a
waggon.
LAG FEVER. A term of ridicule applied to men who being
under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid
being sent from gaol to the hulks.
TO LAG. To drop behind, to keep back. Lag last; the
last of a company.
LAGE. Water. CANT.
LAGE OF DUDS. A buck of linen.