1882. M’Cabe, New York, xxiii. 383. ‘Give them the locusts, men,’
came in sharp ringing tones from the captain.
Verb. (thieves’).—See quot.
1868. Temple Bar, xxiv. 539. Locusting is putting a chap to sleep
with chloroform and bellowing is putting his light out.
Lodger, subs. (prison).—1. A convict waiting for his discharge.
1889. Answers, 25 May, p. 412. We were delicately termed lodgers,
not prisoners, by the authorities.