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What is a yegg?

What is a yegg? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cant) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
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Joe caught Boston Frank's eye and forthwith pushed himself alongside the yegg.
A jeweler by trade, he fell from his high estate and went on the road as a yegg.
Sometimes, though, past and present combinations commingle in the mind, leaving men to huddle in the cold like hapless burglars while waiting for the frozen-fingered deciphering of the head yegg.
The practice was begun by country storekeepers who had become quite accustomed to yegg incursions.
This grizzled old yegg was a by-product of the Civil War, where he learned the disruptive force of explosives, which were useful to him in his profession of safe-breaking.
With a few ounces of this stuff the yegg successfully attacks all but the most powerfully protected bank vaults in America today.

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