kind of Patience solitaire.
land of Arabian nights Egypt.
lightermen bargemen.
like the Bull in Cock Robin pulling at the bell rope a nursery-rhyme reference about a bullfinch offering to toll the bell at Cock Robin’s funeral. Here, the man speaking to Jaggers is pulling at a lock of his hair, often done by a country person as a sign of respect to a member of the gentry.
limekiln a furnace or kiln used to turn limestone into lime. Though Dickens places this near the sluice-house, it is unlikely a limekiln could have burned so close to water. It most likely was further inland.
Little Britain street north of St. Paul’s Cathedral with many law offices because of its proximity to the criminal courts.
