moke
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Well, I call it shabby givin' 'em a kerridge without even so much as a old moke to dror it.
From Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various
The gawky camel shuffles along, a picture of woe with a load of 2 cwt. to 4 cwt., whilst the little moke trips smartly with almost an equal weight upon his back.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
An English coster’s moke is not to be named on the same day with the Cairo donkey, on which you can have a ride for a trifling sum.
From Cities of the Dawn by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
When we got back to college we succeeded in taking possession of the porter who answered our knocks, and in getting both the moke and Dennison into the quad.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
Many a rhyming moke, Sense from rhyme sundered: Many wrote well, but not— Not the Six Hundred.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
Mess-hall waiters are sometimes called "mokes," while at other times the names of certain exalted dignitaries of the Navy Department, or of the academy, are applied to them.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan
I've got a pair of snow-white mokes," he says, "and I've bought a coster's shallow.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
His father's ice-cream business never had any fascination for the lad; but from the first his spirit drew him to the long-eared shaggy mokes of certain of the neighbours.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
At the appointed time he appeared on foot, leading two mokes and armed with a long thick stick.
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes