libken Old Cant.
Also 6 lipken, 7 libkin.
[f. lib v.3 + ken n.2]
A place to sleep in.
| 1567 [see lib v.3]. 1611 Middleton & Dekker Roaring G. v. i. K 4, If you come to our lib ken. 1621 B. Jonson Gipsies Metamorph. (1640) 50 To their libkins at the Crackmans. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Libkin, a House to Lye in; also a Lodging. 1816 Scott Guy M. xliv, These are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himself. |