autem quaver tub

English

Noun

autem quaver tub (plural autem quaver tubs)

(obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A Quaker meetinghouse.

Related terms

autem cackle tub (“generic Dissenter's meeting house”)

References

[Francis Grose] (1788), “Autem quaver tub”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
“autem quaver 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, pages 81–82

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