or tag, twig, subs. (old).—A shirt. For synonyms, see CAMESA.
1821. D. HAGGART, Life, 133. Few had either a MILL-TWIG, toper, or crabs.
1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd ed.), s.v.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. i. p. 231, s.v. MILL TAG—A shirt.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1888. Temple Bar, xxiv. 536. I’ve known him to get thirty MILL-TOGS in one day.
