Galloper, subs. (old).—1. A blood horse; a hunter.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double.
2. (military).—An aide-de-camp.
Gallow-grass, subs. phr. (old).—Hemp. [i.e., halters in the rough.]
1578. Lyte, Trans. of Dodoens History of Plantes, fol. 72. Hempe is called in … English, Neckweede, and gallowgrass.
Gallows, subs. (old).—1. A rascal; a wretch deserving the rope.
1594. Shakspeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, v., 2. A shrewd unhappy gallows too.
1754. B. Martin, Eng. Dict. (2nd ed.). s.v. = a wicked rascal.
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist. (To Oliver). Now young gallows.
1838. Jas. Grant, Sketches in London, ch. ii., p. 58. Blow me tight, young gallows, if I don’t pound your ribs to powder!