gooseberry lay

English

Noun

gooseberry lay (plural gooseberry lays)

(archaic, thieves' cant) The stealing of linen hanging on a line.

References

John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry lay”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.

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