Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Legger
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd ed.), s.v. LEGGERS. Sham LEGGERS; cheats who pretend to sell smuggled goods, but in reality only deal in shopkeepers old or damaged goods.
