Some more olde words to lighten up your day and stimulate your thinking!
Duck's dinner - A drink of water without anything to eat.
Wolfshead - An outlaw, meaning a person who might be killed with impunity, like a wolf.
Shoot the moon - To remove furniture from a house in the middle of the night without paying the landlord.
Shuttle-gathering - An expedient for stopping weaving factories without breaking the machinery. The shuttles from the looms were forcibly gathered and taken away by the discounted weavers and, as they could not be replaced for several weeks, business had to be suspended.
Eyeshot - sight, glance, view. Hence, eye-reach, the range or reach of the eye; extent of vision.
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