nubbing

It don't pay, 'cept to buy a piece of rope at nubbing cheat.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

{But/And} when {that/---} we come to {Tyburn/the nubbing cheat}

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.

XII. In Which the Man of the Hill Continues His History. Book VIII 1917

"All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!"

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

He tried, and failed, to kill himself; and his progress to the nubbing cheat was a triumph of execration.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

He tried, and failed, to kill himself; and his progress to the nubbing cheat was a triumph of execration.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

I agree john q public has no idea whats going on at the meetings. prime examples are all of these blogs. only one side or part of the story is presented. also most people don't know about them and why it is even important for them to attend. and by the time they get home from their mind nubbing jobs, they don't want to go to a meeting and listne to some blowhard who reminds them to much of their idiot boss or know-it-all father-in-law.

Fair Use Randy Smith 2005

_crashing-chetes_ = the teeth; _nubbing-chete_ = the gallows, and so forth.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: ` Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities '; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894