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(verb) - To hint to guests that it is time to depart. The custom arose in the English-Scotch borderlands when provisions ran out, for a pair of spurs to be sent to table as a hint that a raid for provisions was desirable.
--Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
January 14, 2018