STITCH. A nick name for a taylor: also a term for lying with a woman. STITCHBACK. Strong ale. STIVER-CRAMPED. Needy, wanting money. A stiver is a Dutch coin, worth somewhat more than a penny sterling. STOCK. A good stock; i.e. of impudence. Stock and block; the whole: he has lost stock and block. STOCK DRAWERS. Stockings. STOCK JOBBERS. Persons who gamble in Exchange Alley, by pretending to buy and sell the public funds, but in reality only betting that they will be at a certain price, at a particular time; possessing neither the stock pretended to be sold, nor money sufficient to make good the payments for which they contract: these gentlemen are known under the different appellations of bulls, bears, and lame ducks. STOMACH WORM. The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry. STONE. Two stone under weight, or wanting; an eunuch. Stone doublet; a prison. Stone dead; dead as a stone. STONE JUG. Newgate, or any other prison. STONE TAVERN. Ditto. STOOP-NAPPERS, or OVERSEERS OF THE NEW PAVEMENT. Persons set in the pillory. CANT. STOOP. The pillory. The cull was served for macing and napp'd the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and put in the pillory. STOP HOLE ABBEY. The nick name of the chief rendzvous of the canting crew of beggars, gypsies, cheats, thieves, &c. &c. STOTER. A great blow. Tip him a stoter in the haltering place; give him a blow under the left ear. STOUP. A vessel to hold liquor: a vessel containing a size or half a pint, is so called at Cambridge. STOW. Stow you; be silent, or hold your peace. Stow your whidds and plant'em, for the cove of the ken can cant'em; you have said enough, the man of the house understands you. STRAIT-LACED. Precise, over nice, puritanical. STRAIT WAISTCOAT. A tight waistcoat, with long sleeves coming over the hand, having strings for binding them behind the back of the wearer: these waistcoats are used in madhouses for the management of lunatics when outrageous. STRAMMEL. See STAMMEL. STRANGER. A guinea. STRANGLE GOOSE. A poulterer. To STRAP. To work. The kiddy would not strap, so he went on the scamp: the lad would not work, and therefore robbed on the highway. STRAPPER. A large man or woman. STRAPPING. Lying with a woman. CANT. STRAW. A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is almost asleep: one eye draws straw, and t'other serves the thatcher. STRETCH. A yard. The cove was lagged for prigging a peter with several stretch of dobbin from a drag; the fellow was transported for stealing a trunk, containing several yards of ribband, from a waggon. STRETCHING. Hanging. He'll stretch for it; he will be hanged for it. Also telling a great lie: he stretched stoutly. STRIKE. Twenty shillings. CANT. STRIP ME NAKED. Gin. STROKE. To take a stroke: to take a bout with a woman.