SINGLE-HANDED, robbery by yourself, without a pall.
SIR SYDNEY, a clasp knife.
SKIN, a purse, or money bag.
SKIN, to strip a man of all his money at play, is termed skinning him.
SLANG, a watch chain, a chain of any kind; also a warrant, license to travel, or other official instrument.
SLANG, to defraud a person of any part of his due, is called slanging him; also to cheat by false weights or measures, or other unfair means.
SLANG WEIGHTS, or MEASURES, unjust, or defective ones.
SLANGING-DUES, when a man suspects that he has been curtailed, or cheated, of any portion of his just right, he will say, there has been slanging-dues concerned.
SLANG’D, fettered.