Scores of others have definitions so obscure that you wonder why a word was needed at all. Was it necessary to have quite so many different words to describe the less fortunate members of society?
Here they are:
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• ascii: those people who, at certain times of year, have no shadow on them at noon; such are the inhabitants of the torrid zone, because they have the sun twice a year vertical to them
• badger: one that buys corn and victuals in one place and sell them in other places
• beard: to take or pluck by the beard, in contempt or anger
• brainsick: diseased in the understanding, addleheaded,giddy,thoughtless
(cf: present definition: mad)
• buzzer: a secrete whisperer
• cabbage: to steal cloth in cutting clothes
• canter: a term of reproach for hypocrites, who talk formally of religion, without obeying it
• car: a small carriage of burden, usually drawn by one horse or two
• clicker: a low word for the servant of a salesman, who stands at the door to invite customers
• cankerbit: bitten with an envenomed tooth
• dangler: a man that hangs about women only to waste time
• dish-washer: the name of a bird
• doodle: a trifler, an idler
• gingerness: niceness, tenderness
• gloat: to cast side glances as a timorous lover
(*TDF:to feel or express great, often malicious pleasure or self-satisfaction)
• gossip: 1. one who answers for the child in baptism 2. a tippling companion
(*TFD: a woman friend)
• gray: a badger
• grice: a little pig
• force: to mince (eg: forced beef: minced beef)
• fren: a worthless woman (* TDF: presently used to mean "a stranger" )
• frump: to mock; to browbeat
(* TDF: a woman regarded as dull, plain, dowdy, drab, unattractive)
• futile: talkative
• gaffer: a word of respect now obsolete, or applied only in contempt to a mean person
• gallant: a whoremaster who caresses women to debouch them
• jogger: one who moves very dully and heavily
• huggermugger: a hug in the dark
(*TDF: to act stealthily)
• ingathering: an act of geeing in the harvest
(*TDF: request for a sum of money)
• intonation: the act of thundering
• kennel: to lie: to dwell; (TDF: a doghouse)
• kicksy-wicksey: a made word in ridicule and disdain of a wife
(*TDF: that which is restless and uneasy)
• lambs-wool: ale mixed with pulp of roasted apples
• leech: a physician
• lickerishness: a niceness of palate
(*TDF: lecherous, greedy)
• lig : to lie
(*TDF: a function at which free entertainment and refreshments are available)
• liking: plump
• mad: an earth worm
• manure: to cultivate by manual labour
(* TDF: to fertilize by applying materials such as dung)
(*TDF: preference, taste, fondness)
• mumps: sullenness;silent anger
(*TDF: ann infectious disease)
• naff: a kind of tufted sea-bird
(*TDF: outmoded, in poor taste, to fool around)
neat: black cattle, oxen
• nepotism: fondness of nephews
(*TDF: favouritism shown or parontage granted to relatives, as in business)
• pash: a kiss (TDF: romantic infatuation)
• peeper: a young chickens just breaking the shell
• pencil: a small brush of hair which painters dip in their colours, to paint
• pickle: an small parcel of land enclosed with a hedge, which in some countries is called a pringle
• piddle: to pick at table; to feed squeamishly and without appetite
(*TDF: to waste time)
• pink: to wink with the eyes
• poster: a courier; one that travels hastily
• pother: to make a blustering ineffectual effort
(*TDF: an excited state of agitation, to make upset)
• pressgang: a crew that strolls about the streets to force men into naval service
(*historial vocabulary)
• punk: a whore; a common prostitue; a strumpet
• rum: a country parson
(*TDF: alcoholic drink, odd)
• sarcophagus: flesh-eating;feeding on flesh
(*TDF: a stone coffin)
• skipjack: an upstart
(*TDF:a kind of fish, a kind of yacht..etc.)
• smellfeast: a parasite; a hunter of good table
• spanker: a small coin
• spindleshanked: having small legs
(*TDF: having long, slender legs)
• sprit: to throw out; to eject with force
(*TDF: n. Nautical
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A pole that extends diagonally across a fore-and-aft sail from the lower part of the mast to the peak of the sail.
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A bowsprit.)