LOBSTER.
A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his clothes.
To boil one's lobster - For a churchman to become a soldier: lobsters, which are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling.
I will not make a lobster kettle of my * * * * - A reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point at Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favour.
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