bowl's-cast

Updated: May 18, 2025

I have been as sick of that captain's buff belt, and red doublet, for this month past, as e'er I was of aught; and now I hope this bold linendraper will cudgel the ass out of that filthy lion's hide. See, Nigel, see the gallant citizen has ta'en his ground about a bowl's-cast forward, in the midst of the alley the very model of a hog in armour.

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel