1885. Mrs. Campbell-Praed, Australian Life. The cattle (women) hereabouts are too scattered.… Next year I shall look over a heifer-paddock in Sydney, and take my pick.
Heigh-ho, subs. (thieves’).—Stolen yarn. [From the expression used to apprise the fence that the speaker had stolen yarn to sell.]
Heights. To scale the heights of connubial bliss, verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.
Helbat, subs. (back).—A table.
Hell, subs. (old).—1. Generic for a place of confinement, as in some games (Sydney), or a cell in a prison: specifically, a place under the Exchequer Chamber, where the king’s debtors were confined.
1593. Shakspeare, Comedy of Errors, iv., 2. A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well, One that before the judgement, carries poor souls to hell.
1658. Counter-Rat. In Wood Street’s hole, or counter’s hell.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Secreta.… Also the name of a place in Venice where all their secret records and ancient evidences be kept, as hell is in Westminster Hall. [[299]]
2. (old).—A workman’s receptacle for stolen or refuse pieces, as cloth, type, etc.; one’s eye. Also Hell-hole and Hell-box. See Cabbage. Hell-matter = (printers’) old and battered type.
(?). Newest Academy of Compliments. When taylors forget to throw cabbage in hell, And shorten their bills, that all may be well.