draught on the pump at Aldgate

English

Noun

draught on the pump at Aldgate (plural draughts on the pump at Aldgate)

(obsolete, slang) A bad bill of exchange, drawn on persons who have no effects of the drawer.

References

Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)

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