Brewer's: Hatteraick

(Dirk). Also called “Jans Janson.” A Dutch smuggler imprisoned with lawyer Glossin for kidnapping Henry Bertrand. During the night Glossin contrived to enter the smuggler's cell, when a quarrel ensued. Hatteraick strangled Glossin, and then hanged himself. (SirWalterScott: Guy Mannering.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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