couchahogshead (third-person singular simple presentcouches a hogshead,present participlecouching a hogshead,simple past and past participlecouched a hogshead)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Tolie down tosleep.
   • 1566,Thomas Harman,A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors‎^[1], T. Bensley, published1814, page66:

     Icouched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.

   • 1611,Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor,The Works of Thomas Middleton‎^[2], volume 4, published1885, act 5, scene 1, pages128–129:

     Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'llcouch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

   • 1992, Cynthia Morgan,Court of Shadows:

     Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we havecouched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.

• SeeThesaurus:go to bed

• [Francis Grose] (1788) “Couch a hogshead”, inA Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […],→OCLC.
• Albert Barrère andCharles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “Couch a hogshead, to”, inA Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumeI (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press,→OCLC,page274.
• John S[tephen] Farmer;W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “couch a hogshead”, inSlang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […],→OCLC,page329.

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