nubbing cheat

noun

nubbing cheat

noun

1

Obsolete, Slang The gallows.

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.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 307:

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