couch a hogshead

== English == === Verb === couch a hogshead (third-person singular simple present couches a hogshead, present participle couching a hogshead, simple past and past participle couched a hogshead) (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To lie down to sleep. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:go to bed === References === [Francis Grose] (1788), “Couch a hogshead”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC. Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “Couch a hogshead, to”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 274. John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893), “couch a hogshead”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 329.