Meaning of Whitechapel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An urban area in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London, Greater London, England, traditionally a poor working-class neighbourhood. (OS grid ref TQ3481)
2. Ellipsis of Whitechapel cart.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. A hamlet in Goosnargh parish, Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5541).

Examples

“The first man I spoke to was Whitechapel to the backbone, plainly to be spotted as such as if it had been tattooed on his forehead. Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.”

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