"ruffmans" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From rough + -mans.",
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      "form": "ruffemans",
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          "ref": "1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:",
          "text": "Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.",
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          "ref": "1994, Amanda Scott, Dangerous Illusions, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Woods, hedges or bushes."
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          "hedge"
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          "bush",
          "bush"
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        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Woods, hedges or bushes."
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          "ref": "1994, Amanda Scott, Dangerous Illusions, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised.",
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