What does gooseberry lay mean?

gooseberry lay

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

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"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. […]"
"How long have you been off the gooseberry lay, son?"

gooseberry lays (plural)

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