Lurries, subs. (old).—See quot. 1690. For synonyms see Actual and Gilt.
Also Lurry.
1674. The Canting Academy (ed. 20). ‘The Budge it is a Delicate
Trade.’ But if the cully nab us and The lurries from us takes, O
then he rubs us to the whit.
1676. The Twenty Craftsmen. The fifth was a glazier, who, when he
creeps in, To pinch all the lurry he thinks it no sin.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lurries, Money, Watches, Rings,
or other Moveables.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1754. Scoundrel’s Dicty. If he sees but the lurry his hooks he will
bait.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Lurry, subs. (old colloquial).—1. Gabble.
1649. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xvi. To turn prayer into a kind of
lurrey.