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" GOOSE RIDING. A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head: which if they effect, the goose is their prize. "
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - Page 74
by Francis Grose - 1785 - 182 pages
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Blackguardiana: Or, A Dictionary of Rogues ...

James Caulfield - English language - 1793 - 312 pages
...fire. GOOSECAP, a filly fellow, or woman. GOOSE RIDING, a goofe whofe neck is greafed being fufpended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high pofts, a number of men on horfeback riding full fpeed attempt to pull off the head, which if they effect,...
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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and ...

Francis Grose - English language - 1811 - 244 pages
...have a goose at hi=< fire. He cannot say boh to a goose ; a saying of a bashful or sheepish fellow. GOOSE RIDING. A goose, whose neck is greased, being...Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living. GOOSEBERRY. He played up old gooseberry among them ; said of a person who, by force or threats, suddenly...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the ..., Volume 2

John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...Gl. Grose." Etym. Dict. r. SHINTY. GOOSE RIDING. A GOOSE, whose neck is greased, heing suspended hy the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a numher of men on horsehack riding full-speed attempt to pull off the head, •which if they accomplish...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...is much practised in the north of England; and Dr. Jamieson, that it is a common game in Scotland. 1 GOOSE RIDING. A GOOSE, whose neck is greased, being...speed attempt to pull off the head, which, if they accomplish, they win the goose. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 19

1850 - 600 pages
...Sedistern.of which, * In Grose's Dictionary, we have the word QOOSEii ' l .] M ; thus explained : — " A goose whose neck is greased, being suspended by...attempt to pull off the head, which, if they effect, the googe is their prize. This has been practiced in Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 19

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 pages
...Sedistern.of which, * In Grose's Dictionary, we have the word GOOSKвшгао thus explained : — " A goose whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees, or high poste, a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head, which, if they...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1875 - 556 pages
...practised in the north of England ; and Dr. Jamieson, that it is a common game in Scotland.1 GOOSE BIDING. A GOOSE, whose neck is greased, being suspended by...speed attempt to pull off the head, which, if they accomplish, they win the goose. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons...
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The History and Curious Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew: King of the ...

Beggars - 1882 - 172 pages
...Glimstick, a candlestick. Glybe, or Gybt, a writing or pass. Goose Hiding : a goose, whose neck has been greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied...Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living. Gorger, a swell, a bumptious fellow. Gounof, a foolish fellow, a bungler, an unsuccessful pickpocket....
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Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore ..., Volume 1

John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...Edward VI. 's reign, called the Upchering of the Mass, it is referred to as the " Winchester gosling." Goose Riding:. — A goose, whose neck is greased,...or high posts, a number of men on horseback riding at full-speed attempt to pull off the head, which if they accomplish they win the goose. This has been...
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