GET
NOUNS
► CAPTATION a catching at, an endeavour to get → 1523
VERBS
► ABCAP to get, to obtain → M19 UK criminal’s sl.
► ANNEX to lay hold of roughly, to grab; to get; to steal → 1845 US jocular usage
► BEGET to get, to acquire, usually by effort → a1000 obs.
► CAPTATE to catch at, to strive to obtain, to seek after → 1628 obs.
► CATCH to receive, to get, to obtain → c1205 obs.
► CLEAR THE HARROWS to get one’s object, to attain one’s desire → 1892 Sc.
► COFF to acquire, to get → 1559 Sc. obs.
► COUGH to purchase, to acquire, to get → 1550 obs.
► FANG to get, to obtain, to procure; also, to get together; to collect → 1340-70 obs.
► FINAGLE to wangle, to manoeuvre, to obtain by devious means; to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion → 1922 Amer. dial.
► KEEP to try to catch or get; to seek after → c1000 obs.
► LATCH to be the recipient of; to get; to receive a name, gift, blow, injury; to catch a disease → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LUCRATE to gain, to get, to win → 1623 obs.
► MAKE A PLAY FOR to try to get something → 1905 orig. US
► MUZZLE to get, to appropriate; to appropriate food → 1876 sl., obs.
► OFGO to gain, to win, to obtain; to obtain by merit, to deserve, to earn → c1000 obs.
► SCRAPE UP to get, esp. laboriously and bit by bit → 1617
► SCRATCH UP to get, esp. laboriously and bit by bit → 1922 Amer. sl.
► SNAKE to get or obtain a thing furtively or surreptitiously; to steal or pilfer; to cheat a person out of something → a1861
► TAIN to obtain, to get → 1501 obs.
► TILL to labour after, to seek after, to provide; to get by effort, to obtain, acquire or earn by labour; later, to get, to obtain → a900 obs.
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