halter-sack

noun

halter-sack

noun

1

Derogatory, Obsolete Someone fit to be hanged i.e. a scoundrel.

Away! you halter-sack!1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:

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