Mudcat Café message #2405096

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Posted By: MartinRyan
04-Aug-08 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: Define: Pincher laddies
Subject: RE: Define: Pincher laddies

Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang gives it as mid 19 Century tramps cant. To go "on the spike" is to sleep in the workhouse.

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