or naskin, subs. (old).—See quots. and CAGE.

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  1686.  H. HIGDEN, A Modern Essay on the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, p. 38.

        Each heir by dice, drink, whores, or masking,
Or Stistead brought into the NASKIN.
  [Note, Naskin.—The Cant word for a Prison.]

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NASK. THE OLD NASK, the City Bridewell. THE NEW NASK, Clerkenwell Bridewell. TUTTLE NASK, The Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields.

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  1775.  ASH, Dictionary, s.v. NASKIN (a Cant word), a jail, a bridewell.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

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  See also NAB.

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