Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shield or thimble of horn for the thumb, used by pick-pockets as a protection in cutting out purses. 182
- noun Hence A pickpocket.
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Examples
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I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe _of booty_, boy, a cutpurse.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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_ I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe _of booty_, boy, a cut purse.”
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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