Live-stock, vermin of the insect kind, especially of that more than usually unpleasant kind found on tramps, &c.
Loafer, a lazy vagabond. Generally considered an Americanism. Loper, or LOAFER, however, was in general use as a cant term in the early part of the last century. Landloper was a vagabond who begged in the attire of a sailor; and the sea-phrase, [LAND-LUBBER], was doubtless synonymous.
Loaver, money. See [LOUR].—Lingua Franca.
Lob, a till, or money-drawer.
Lob-sneaking, stealing money from tills; occasionally stealing tills and all.
Loblolly, gruel.—Old: used by Markham as a sea-term for grit gruel, or hasty pudding.
Loblolly boy, a derisive term for a surgeon’s mate in the navy.
“Lob-lolly-boy is a person who on board of a man-of-war attends the surgeon and his mates, and one who knows just as much of the business of a seaman as the author of this poem.”—The Patent, a Poem, 4to, 1776.
Lobs! schoolboys’ signal on the master’s approach. Also, an assistant watcher, an under gamekeeper.