STROKE. To take a stroke: to take a bout with a woman.
STROLLERS. Itinerants of different kinds. Strolling morts; beggars or pedlars pretending to be widows.
STROMMEL. Straw. CANT.
STRONG MAN. To play the part of the strong man, i.e. to push the cart and horses too; to be whipt at the cart's tail.
STRUM. A perriwig. Rum strum: a fine large wig.
(CAMBRIDGE) To do a piece. Foeminam subagitare. CANT.
To STRUM. To have carnal knowledge of a woman; also to play badly on the harpsichord; or any other stringed instrument. A strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.
STRUMPET. A harlot.
STUB-FACED. Pitted with the smallpox: the devil ran over his face with horse stabs (horse nails) in his shoes.
STUBBLE IT. Hold your tongue. CANT.
STULING KEN. See STALLING KEN. CANT.