subs. (rhyming slang).—The arm.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Bender; hoop-stick; tin; daddle.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. L’anse (popular: in old French cant anse signified the ‘ear’); les allumettes (popular: ‘the arms’); l[a]’aile or l[e]’aileron (popular: in the Fourbesque ala); les nageoires (plural).
ITALIAN SYNONYMS. Ala (‘a wing’); barbacana (literally a kind of advanced fortification); tarentule (the Italian has tarantello, ‘a spider.’
SPANISH SYNONYMS. Bracio; remo (properly ‘an oar’).
