Field-lane duck

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Field Lane was a low London thoroughfare leading from the foot of Holborn Hill to the purlieus of Clerkenwell.

Noun[edit]

Field-lane duck (plural Field-lane ducks)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A baked sheep's head.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary