[Ads-l] bleeky (a tin cup)

[George Thompson]

            I was thirsty; but, as my companions had passed on, I had not
time to peel a piece of bark, which first offered itself to my necessity as
the readiest method to separate the water from the surface of the rock; but
applying the lip of our travelling *bleeky *(a tin cup), which I had in my
hand, close to the cleft, I soon received sufficient for a moderate draught.

            The Miscellany, June 10, 1805, p. 2


This is neither in the OED nor DARE.


GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/
an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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