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The Vulgar Tongue on Nostr: PEAR MAKING. Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The ...

PEAR MAKING. Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The cove was fined in the steel for pear making; the fellow was imprisoned in the house of correction for taking bounties from different regiments.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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