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Tue May 03 2005 at 23:19:25
UPPING BLOCK
(Called in some counties a
leaping stock
, in others a
jossing block
.) Steps for mounting a horse. He sits like a
toad
on a jossing block; said of one who sits ungracefully on
horseback
.
The
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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upper story
Uppish