"gooseberry lay" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gooseberry lays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gooseberry lay (plural gooseberry lays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, page 315:",
          "text": "I soon had some kids in working order, and we done a good business - this was in the winter, and we all vent on the gooseberry lay - that means taking things from clothes lines - and ye see they would talk about it ven dey comes home, so that the landlord could hear 'em sometimes - being only a thin board partition between our room and his'n. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": ", Dashiell Hammett, early manuscript of The Maltese Falcon, quoted in 2020, Study Guide to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Influence Publishers)",
          "text": "How long have you been off the gooseberry lay, son?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The stealing of linen hanging on a line."
      ],
      "id": "en-gooseberry_lay-en-noun-Rm7eSGYp",
      "links": [
        [
          "stealing",
          "stealing"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, thieves' cant) The stealing of linen hanging on a line."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gooseberry lay"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gooseberry lays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gooseberry lay (plural gooseberry lays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English Thieves' Cant",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, page 315:",
          "text": "I soon had some kids in working order, and we done a good business - this was in the winter, and we all vent on the gooseberry lay - that means taking things from clothes lines - and ye see they would talk about it ven dey comes home, so that the landlord could hear 'em sometimes - being only a thin board partition between our room and his'n. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": ", Dashiell Hammett, early manuscript of The Maltese Falcon, quoted in 2020, Study Guide to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Influence Publishers)",
          "text": "How long have you been off the gooseberry lay, son?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The stealing of linen hanging on a line."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stealing",
          "stealing"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, thieves' cant) The stealing of linen hanging on a line."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gooseberry lay"
}