TO TURN A THING TO A WELSHMAN’S-HOSE, verb. phr. (old).—To suit to one’s purpose.

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  d. 1529.  SKELTON, The Boke of Colin Clout.

        And MAKE A WALSHMAN’S HOSE
Of the text and of the glose.

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  1619.  The Falles of Vnfortunate Princes, 278.

        The Lawes we did interpret and statutes of the Land,
Not truly by the text, but newly by a glose:
And words that were most plaine, when they by vs were skand,
We turned by construction TO A WELCHMANS HOSE.

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