Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shackle; the shackle that runs on the stake to which a cow is bound in a cow-house.
- noun A ring of straw or hemp put round a jumper by miners to prevent the water in the bore-hole from squirting up.
- noun A stick cleft at one end, in which the tail of a dog is put by way of mischief.
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Examples
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_Collie-shangie_, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.
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But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly-shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsellThirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed, and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that s in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and hell expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside.
Chapter XLIV 1917
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'But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly-shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell: -- Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly - shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell: -- Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly - shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell: -- Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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‘But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly-shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell: — Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to
Guy Mannering 1815
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