autem cackle tub

English

Noun

autem cackle tub (plural autem cackle tubs)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A Dissenter's meetinghouse; a conventicle.
  2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A pulpit.

References
  • [Francis Grose] (1788), “Autem cackle tub”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
  • “autem cackle tub” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 54.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 1, page 80
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