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Bill and Ben is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.
ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). The ten pound meaning of cock and hen is 20th century rhyming slang. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. Cock and hen also gave raise to the variations cockeren, cockeren and hen, hen, and the natural rhyming slang short version, cock - all meaning ten pounds.
Stink. That's a bit of a pen and ink.
A male or female, who is maximally sexually attractive; the perfect man or woman.[On a scale of one to ten, that one was a ten.].
Smile and titter is London Cockney rhyming slang for bitter (beer).Smile and titter was London Cockney rhyming slang for a mixture of mild and bitter.
v. smoking Black and Mild cigars. the resurgence of Black and Mild cigars have increased in the last ten years. "With that fake a** smile, smoking on your black and mild…"Â
Ten
Five furlong job is British slang for someone unable to last very long at something.
Ten Furlongs (Mile and a quarter)
Water. I'll have a gold watch and ten
ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net.
Another term to describe a nautical mile. Used when describing ships's movements. eg. "In the month of May the ship made 3500 sea miles."
millimeters, as in "..a 60 Mike Mike" (60mm mortar).
Rat and mice is London Cockney rhyming slang for dice. Rat and mice is London Cockney rhyming slang for rice.
Cockerel and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten.
Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten (especially ten pounds sterling).
Ten is American slang for a superb specimen.Ten is Jamaican slang for an attractive woman (ten out of ten).
ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen').
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a.
Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.
superl.
Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
v. t.
To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.
a.
Five times ten; as, fifty men.
n.
The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
n.
A funeral pile; a pyre.
a.
Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
n.
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
v. t.
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
a.
Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
a. & adv.
Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
v. t.
Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
a.
Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
n.
A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
a.
Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
n.
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
a.
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
n.
A mill for grinding tin ore.
v. t.
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.
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