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Booty-haler. World English Historical Dictionary

Booty-haler. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Booty-haler or Boot-haler, subs. phr. (old).—A robber; freebooter. Hence BOOT-HALING = a plundering expedition, a knavish adventure.

1   1592.  NASHE, Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell. How, when all supply of victualls fayled them, they went a BOOT-HALING one night to sinior Greedinesse bed-chambers.

2   1611.  MIDDLETON, The Roaring Girle [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), vi, 103]. My own father laid these London BOOT-HALERS the catch-poles in ambush to set upon me.

3   1620.  FLETCHER, The Chances, i, 4.                        Well don John, If you do spring a leak, or get an itch, ’Till ye claw off your curl’d pate, thank your nightwalks, You must be still a BOOT-HALING.

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