What does smatter-hauling mean?

smatter-hauling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

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British usage; Obsolete; Slang; Uncountable

"At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes)."

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