jarkman
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A forger of counterfeit seals, licenses or other documents.
— Allusion has been made to forged certificates. These were manufactured by a class of mendicants who had something in them of clerkly skill. They were called Jarkmen, Jark being the cant term for a seal.
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A writer of begging letters.
— And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.
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From jark + -man.
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