Mindless Rambles Rambles from the tech world

The Sword Racket is to enlist in different regiments, and on receiving the bounty to desert immediately.

One reeling, and ready to fall at the least touch; also the childish amusement of riding upon the two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop underneath its centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps tatter is a rustic pronunciation of totter. Also now known as a  teeter-totter and by various regional names.

A Haberdasher of Pronouns is a school master or usher.

Maneuvering the Apostles is robbing Peter to pay Paul.  In other words, borrowing from one man to pay another.

Rough music is: Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, and such,  beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions.

A Knight of the Post is a person who will give false evidence for hire.   I assume this refers to testimony in court and this is confirmed by other sources.

What will some get if you send them for a horse ladder: Confused and laughed at.  The dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue says a horse ladder is: A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists  in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring farm house, to borrow a horse ladder, in order to get up the [...]

According to the 1811 dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Sworn at Highgate A ridiculous custom formerly prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, to administer a ludicrous oath to all travellers of the middling rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair of horns, fastened on a stick: the substance of the oath was, [...]

A gluepot is a parson.  Because he joins people together in matrimony.

A Gentleman of the Three Outs is: Without money, without wit, and without manners: Some add another out, i.e. without credit.