1/1: The Busselton slops have temporarily suppressed their slugging once the ‘Times’ shed its glim.ĭ. Rook Hooligan Nights 61: There was a glim burning in the room. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 141: ‘ get it t’roo me nut dat I’m pinched on account o’ me glim bein’ out’.Ĭ. Henley & Stevenson Admiral Guinea II vi: Now, here you see, is my little glim it aint for me, because I’m blind.į. Mayhew Paved with Gold 118: The last in bed blows out the glim. n.p.: He struck a glim and groped his way up the stairs.Ī. Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 21 Jan. ‘The Night Squall’ in Nobby Songster 3: She shone in the light of a penny glim, / As she pinched and played with her hairy q-m! Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 186: Now Oliver puts his black nightcap on / And every star its glim is hiding. 2/3: After roystering at the Theatre, they broomed to a neighboring bousing ken one told the landlord to flick him some panea and cassan, while the others commenced smashing the flickers and glims. ‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 80: Six glims round his coffin they placed.Ĭommercial Advertiser (N.Y.) 1 Feb. Parker View of Society II 69: If you hear, Out glim, which is flash for ‘put out the candle’. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in Groom (1999) xxix: A Glim A Candle. Hitchin Regulator 20: Glim, alias Candle.ĭefoe Street Robberies Considered 32: Glim, Light. Powis Signs of Crime 186: Glim A torch, especially a miniature torch.ģ. A light, especially a burglar’s shielded torch.ĭ. Hubbard Railroad Avenue 344: Glim – Switchman’s or trainman’s lantern. Fluck ‘Bubbles’ of the Old Kent Road 26: If he wakes up, so that he won’t get the wind up, I’ll leave on the glim (gas light).į.H. Raymond Marsh 233: He followed Meyer into the blackness of a crib, with Meyer’s electric torch, or ‘glim’.Ĭ. Callahan Man’s Grim Justice 49: Red put the ‘glim’ (flash light) up against the keyhole.Į. ‘I’ll never get out if I don’t jump to it.’ Sin Sin Wa took the lantern from the counter and followed. ‘Sax Rohmer’ Dope 140: ‘Fetch a glim, Sin Sin,’ he cried. (2006) 35: Ahoy there, bring a glim here, quick! Here’s stranger, and by all that’s fatal, I believe Tom’s enemy! 6/4: He carries, his a rule, his faked turns, or skeleton keys, and his shady glim, or a dark lantern. 1/1: The ‘illuminant’ in Iocal railway carriages is reminiscent of a nigger's fire stick what the lamps lack in flame they make up in foul-smelling fumes the greasy glim last week resulted in the wrong man squeezing the right woman.Īrgus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 4/2: Skivvy produced a dark lantern ‘Now.’ he said, ‘I’m to ’ave the glim in one ’and an’ the barker in t’other’.įlynt & Walton Powers That Prey 213: ‘Let’s swap looks at each other under this glim here.’ And the robber drew Pankerd toward the street-lamp. Stevenson Treasure Island 39: Sure enough, they left their glim here. Thomes Bushrangers 402: ‘Bring hither a glim!’ roared the commissioner, for it was hardly light. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: Give me the glim. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 257: Lucky I would not work till the glim was out. I 37: Then old Jack bade Harriet trim the glim.Ĭ. ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. Navy at Home I 10: The purser’s glim and six inches of day-light, with rays oblique, struggled for the mastery.ĭickens Oliver Twist (1966) 161: Let’s have a glim or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry II ii: Then catch – here’s the gentleman’s tooth picker, and here’s his glim. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Glim, a candle, or dark lantern, used in housebreaking. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 43: A dark Glim a dark Lantern. Glimstick, a candlestck.īailey Universal Etym. As the cull was glimmed, he gangs to the nubb, i.e., if the fellow has been burnt in the hand, he’ll be hanged now. (1926) 206: Glim, a dark lanthorn used in robbing houses also to burn in the hand. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. a Dark-Lanthorn used in Robbing Houses.Ī. ‘A Newgate ex-prisoner’ A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They carry in one hand a dark Glim, and in the other a Poller, which is a dark Lanthorn and a Pistol.ī.E.
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