"sawney" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1820, John Bull, volumes 1-2, page 363:",
          "text": "Tyrrell, another boy, confirmed their testimony, and said, on one occasion, when they had stolen a heart, liver, and lights, the prisoner said, \"go out, one or two of you, and see if you can get a bit of sawney!\" (meaning a bit of bacon).",
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          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:",
          "text": "If a boy comes to the house on a night without money or sawney, or something to sell to the lodgers, a handkerchief or something of that kind, he is not admitted, but told very plainly, ‘Go thieve it, then.’",
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          "ref": "1861, The old Roman well, volume 1, page 62:",
          "text": "A man came in as she spoke, and drawing a large piece of bacon from his pocket, flung it down upon the counter.\n'How much d'ye want for it?' said the lodging-house keeper, weighing it with his eyes.\n'Sixpence.'\n'Sixpence for a bit of sawney! (thieved bacon). We can't give more than fourpence in this shop, my buffer.'",
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        "Bacon."
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        "(UK, thieves' cant, obsolete, uncountable) Bacon."
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