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stauling-ken

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Noun

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stauling-ken (plural stauling-kens)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A house that will receive stolen goods

References

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  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes